Usage:
Cholla Canyon Tongue of Cliff House Sandstone of Mesaverde Group (NM*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Named from] exposures at head of Cholla Canyon, in secs. 9, 10, and 15, T. 31 N., R. 14 W., San Juan Co., northwestern NM (Hayes and Zapp, 1955).
AAPG geologic province:
San Juan basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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