Usage:
Ash Canyon Member of Mesaverde Formation (NM)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality stated to be at Kettle Top, Sierra Co., southwestern NM. Ash Canyon is southeast of Elephant Butte Reservoir, about 3 mi east of Truth or Consequences, Sierra Co., southwestern NM (Lozinsky, 1986).
AAPG geologic province:
Orogrande basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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