Usage:
Big Hill Flow of Clayton Basalt (NM)
Geologic age:
late Cenozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality not stated. [Big Hill is a deeply eroded cone composed of tuff, spatters, and minor amounts of lava, in Union Co., northeastern NM (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 1200).]
AAPG geologic province:
Sierra Grande uplift
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 ([ ]).