Usage:
Arcente Member of Lake Valley Limestone (NM*)
Arcente Member of Lake Valley Formation (NM*)
Geologic age:
Early Mississippian (Tournaisian; Osagean)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: composite section measured in Deadman Canyon, near town of Alamogordo, in sec. 3, T. 17 S., R. 10 E., Otero Co., NM. Named from Arcente Canyon, which traverses northern end of main anticlinal structure in which Lake Valley beds are exposed (Laudon and Bowsher, 1941).
AAPG geologic province:
Orogrande basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).