Usage:
Datil Well Tuff of Datil Group (NM*)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Oligocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: northeast side of White House Canyon across U.S. Highway 60 from the Datil Well Campground, 1.2 mi northwest of the junction of U.S. Highways 60 and 12 in the town of Datil, in NW/4 SW/4 sec. 2, T. 2 S., R. 10 W., Datil 7.5-min quadrangle, Catron Co., NM (Osburn and Chapin, 1983).
AAPG geologic province:
Basin-and-Range province*
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 ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).