Usage:
Animas Valley Basalt (NM-local)
(Confined to floor of western side of Animas Valley, Hidalgo Co., NM.)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (late Pleistocene to Holocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Type area:] exposures confined to floor of western side of Animas Valley, along southeastern side of Peloncillo Mountains, Hidalgo Co., southwestern NM (Gillerman, 1958).
AAPG geologic province:
Pedregosa basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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