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Geologic Unit: Deadwood Gulch

Usage:

Deadwood Gulch Member of Fanney Rhyolite (NM*)


Geologic age:

early Tertiary (Oligocene)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Named from exposures in upper part of Deadwood Gulch, Mogollon district, NM (Ferguson, 1927).
Type section: in sec. 3, T. 1 S., R. 19 W., Catron Co., NM (Ratte, 1981).


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 ([ ]).