Usage:
Guaje Pumice Bed of Otowi Member of Bandelier Tuff of Tewa Group (NM*)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (typical section): on north side of high hill on south side of Guaje Canyon, in SE/4 NW/4 SE/4 sec. 4, T. 19 N., R. 7 E., [Puye 7.5-min quadrangle], Santa Fe Co., north-central NM. Named from Guaje Canyon (Griggs and Hem, 1964).
AAPG geologic province:
Estancia basin*
Palo Duro basin*
Permian basin*
San Juan 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 ([ ]).