Usage:
No current usage?
(†/Carson Sand Member of Gallup Sandstone (NM) considered abandoned? Uncertain if used by the NM Geol. Survey. Not used by the USGS.)
[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Carson Conglomerate by Just (1937) in NM.]
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (subsurface): Shell No. 21-13 Carson, in NE/4 NW/4 sec. 23, T. 25 N., R. 12 W., San Juan Co., NM (Sabins, 1963).
AAPG geologic province:
San Juan basin
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