Usage:
/Apache Tongue of Clayton Basalt (NM)
[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Apache Group by Ransome (1903) in AZ.]
Geologic age:
late Cenozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality not stated. [Forms basalt rim on north side of Apache Canyon, eastern Union Co., northeastern NM (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 1200).]
AAPG geologic province:
Sierra Grande uplift
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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