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Geologic Unit: Bellisle Mountain

Usage:

/Bellisle Mountain Flow of Clayton Basalt (NM)


Geologic age:

late Cenozoic


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type locality not stated. [Bellisle Mountain (now Dale Mountain) is a small volcanic peak on Johnson Mesa in northeastern Colfax Co., northeastern NM, about 10 mi west of Union Co. (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 1200).]


AAPG geologic province:

Sierra Grande uplift


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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