Usage:
/Cieneguilla Limburgite (NM)
[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Pennsylvanian Cieneguilla Formation by Young (1946) also in NM.]
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Oligocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Canyon of Santa Fe Creek between settlements of Canyon and Cieneguilla, Cerillos Hills, Galisteo-Tongue area, Santa Fe Co., NM (Stearns, 1953b).
AAPG geologic province:
Estancia basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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