Usage:
Folsom Vent Basalt (NM)
Geologic age:
Cenozoic, late
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Folsom Vents, two cinder cones and associated basalt, cover less than 0.5 sq mi near mouth of Hereford Park, 1 mi west of Union Co. line on NM Highway 72, northeastern NM (Baldwin and Muehlberger, 1959). [See US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 1200]
AAPG geologic province:
Sierra Grande uplift
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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