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Geologic Unit: Fite Ranch

Usage:

Fite Ranch Sandstone Member of Tres Hermanos Formation (NM*)


Geologic age:

Late Cretaceous (Turonian)*


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

Type section: in SE/4 SE/4 sec. 8 and in NE/4 NE/4 sec. 17, T. 5 S., R. 2 E., San Antonio quadrangle, Socorro Co., central NM. Named from Fite Ranch, 1 mi south of Carthage, Socorro Co., central NM (Hook and others, 1983).


AAPG geologic province:

Orogrande basin*


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).