Usage:
Del Padre Sandstone Member of Espiritu Santo Formation of Arroyo Penasco Group (NM*)
Geologic age:
Early Mississippian (Tournaisian; Osagean)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: bluff on north side of Rito del Padre at its junction with Pecos River, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Mora Co., north-central NM [approx. Lat. 35 deg. 54 min. 30 sec. N., Long. 105 deg. 35 min. 52 sec. W.] (Miller and others, 1963).
AAPG geologic province:
Estancia basin*
Las Vegas-Raton basin*
Palo Duro basin*
San Juan basin*
San Luis basin*
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 ([ ]).