Usage:
Atarque Sandstone (AZ*,NM*)
Atarque Sandstone Member of Tres Hermanos Formation (NM*)
Atarque Member of Mesaverde Formation (NM)
Atarque Member of Gallup Sandstone (NM)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Turonian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures near village of Atarque, Valencia Co., northwestern NM, and also in Zuni Indian Reservation, McKinley Co., northwestern NM (Pike, 1947).
Principal reference section: in NW/4 NE/4 sec. 5, T. 10 N., R. 17 W., McKinley Co., NM (Hook and others, 1983).
Reference section: on southwest side of Santa Rita Mesa, in SW/4 sec. 7, T. 4 N., R. 18 W, [Cibola Co., NM] (McLellan and others, 1983).
AAPG geologic province:
Basin-and-Range province*
Orogrande basin*
San Juan basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).