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Geologic Unit: Bugle

Usage:

Bugle Member of Keating Formation of Escabrosa Group (AZ*,NM*)


Geologic age:

Mississippian, Early*
Tournaisian*


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

Type section: on northeast side of Big Hatchet Mountains, in E/2 sec. 30, T. 29 S., R. 15 W., Hidalgo Co., NM. Named from Bugle Ridge, Big Hatchet Mountains (Armstrong and Mamet, 1978).


AAPG geologic province:

Pedregosa basin*
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 ([ ]).