Usage:
Clayton Basalt (NM*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in NM: /Apache Tongue, /Bellisle Mountain Flow, Big Hill Flow, /Carrizo Flow, Clayton Mesa Tongue, /Dunchee Hill Flow, /Emery Peak Flow, /Gaps Flow, /Gaylord Mountain Flow, Herringa Tongue, /Jose Butte Flow, /Mud Hill Flow, /Purvine Mesa Flow, /Robinson Mountain Flow, Seneca Tongue, Sierra Grande Flow, /Van Cleve Flow.
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Pliocene*
Quaternary*
Pleistocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures on the large Folsom-Clayton Mesa near Clayton, Union Co., NM (Collins, 1949).
AAPG geologic province:
Sierra Grande uplift*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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