Usage:
Bearwallow Mountain Andesite (NM*)
Bearwallow Mountain Formation (NM)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Double Springs Member, Pelona Mountain Member, Wall Lake Member.
Geologic age:
Tertiary (Oligocene to Miocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: Bearwallow Mountain, Catron Co., Mogollon Mountains, southwestern NM (Elston, 1968).
AAPG geologic province:
Basin-and-Range province*
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 ([ ]).