Usage:
Cleary Coal Member of Menefee Formation of Mesaverde Group (NM*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Santonian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from Cleary Mine in SW/4 sec. 31, T. 19 N., R. 1 W., Sandoval Co., NM (Beaumont and others, 1956).
AAPG geologic province:
San Juan basin*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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