Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †Chamiso Formation (NM*-local) reallocated to part of Crevasse Canyon Formation. See Crevasse Canyon.)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Chamiso Creek [now Chamisa Canyon], in T. 2 N., R. 9 W., [Catron Co.], southwestern NM (Winchester, 1920).
AAPG geologic province:
Basin-and-Range province
Orogrande basin
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 ( ).
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