Usage:
Faywood Rhyolite (NM)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from Faywood Hot Springs, in T. 20 S., R. 11 W., Luna Co., NM (Elston, 1957).
AAPG geologic province:
Basin-and-Range province
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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 ( ).
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