Usage:
Baby Capulin Basalt (NM)
Geologic age:
Cenozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Issued from vent of Baby Capulin, a small cylinder cone that lies about midway between Capulin Mountain and Folsom village, in sec. 36, T. 30 N., R. 28 E., Union Co., northeastern NM (Baldwin and Muehlberger, 1959).
AAPG geologic province:
Sierra Grande uplift
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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