Usage:
Blue Water Basalt (NM*)
Blue Water flow (informal) (NM*)
Spelled Bluewater in some reports.
For informal usage, the rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures in San Jose Valley, between Blue Water [Bluewater] and Rio Puerco, Valencia Co., [now in Cibola Co.] west-central NM (Nichols, 1936).
AAPG geologic province:
San Juan basin*
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 ([ ]).