Usage:
Burned Mountain Formation of Vadito Group (NM-local)
Burned Mountain Metarhyolite (NM*-local)
Recognized locally in Tusas Mountains area.
Subunits:
Big Rock Conglomerate Member (NM*).
Geologic age:
late Paleoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures on northwest side of Burned Mountain, in sec. 8, T. 28 N., R. 7 E., [Burned Mountain 7.5-min quadrangle, Rio Arriba Co., Carson National Forest area], central northern NM (Barker, 1958).
Stratotype stated to be at Mesa la Jarita, in Tusas Mountains (Bauer and Williams, 1989).
AAPG geologic province:
Southern Rocky Mountain region*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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