Usage:
Cerro Conejo Formation of Santa Fe Group (NM)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (middle to late Miocene; Barstovian to Clarendonian NALMA)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality (Arroyo Ojito Formation): along Arroyo Ojito, Cerro Conejo (formerly Sky Village NE) 7.5-min quadrangle, Sandoval Co., north-central NM (Connell and others, 1999).
Named from rounded peak Cerro Conejo, [in center S/2 sec. 27, T. 14 N., R. 1 E], Cerro Conejo (formerly Sky Village NE) 7.5-min quadrangle, Sandoval Co., north-central NM (Connell and others, 1999).
AAPG geologic province:
San Juan basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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