Usage:
No current usage.
(†/Badito Quartzite Member of †Hopewell series [now Vadito Group] (NM) considered abandoned. See Vadito.)
[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Badito Formation by Hills (1900) in CO.]
Geologic age:
late Early to early Mesoproterozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures in Picuris area along north side of Rio Pueblo gorge and in a long strip extending from mouth of Picuris Canyon across south and east spurs of Picuris Peak, Taos and Rio Arriba Cos., central northern NM (Just, 1937).
[Origin of name not stated by author.]
AAPG geologic province:
Southern Rocky Mountain region
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