Usage:
Battleship Rock Ignimbrite [unranked] of East Fork Member of Valles Rhyolite of Tewa Group (NM-local)
Battleship Rock Member of Valles Rhyolite of Tewa Group (NM*-local)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Battleship Rock, in sec. 5, T. 18 N., R. 3 E., Jemez Springs 7.5-min quadrangle, Sandoval Co., north-central NM (Bailey and others, 1969).
Named from Battleship Rock, [Lat. 35 deg. 49 min. 42 sec. N., Long. 106 deg. 38 min. 32 sec. W., bdry. btw. sec. 32, T. 19 N., R. 3 E., and sec. 5, T. 18 N., R. 3 E., Jemez Springs 7.5-min quadrangle, Sandoval Co.], Jemez Mountains, north-central NM (Kelley and others, 1961).
AAPG geologic province:
San Juan basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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