Usage:
Campus Andesite (NM, and TX-recognized locally in western TX, notably El Paso area)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Eocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
"Campus Andesite" is largest of several intrusive bodies of igneous rock that occur in Rio Grande Valley southwest of Franklin Mountains in El Paso, TX. "Campus Andesite" occupies an area of about 1 sq mi on and near campus of the University of Texas at El Paso (Hoffer, 1967).
AAPG geologic province:
Orogrande basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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