Usage:
Espiritu Santo Formation of Arroyo Penasco Group (NM*)
Subunits:
Del Padre Sandstone Member (NM*).
Geologic age:
Early Mississippian (Tournaisian; Osagean)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: in quarry west of Pecos River about 75 yds north of Holy Ghost Creek (formerly called Espiritu Santo Creek) at Tererro, San Miguel Co., northern NM. Named from former name of creek, Espirito Santo (Baltz and Read, 1960).
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 ([ ]).