Usage:
Blue Springs Schist (NM)
Blue Springs Muscovite Schist (NM)
Blue Springs Formation (NM)
Geologic age:
Precambrian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures at Blue Springs, a large seepage area where water issues from Blue Springs schist, north of Highway 60 on western flank of Los Pinos Mountains, [northeastern Socorro Co.], central NM (Stark and Dapples, 1946).
AAPG geologic province:
Southwestern Basin-and-Range region
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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