Usage:
Hall Lake Member of McRae Formation (NM-recognized locally in Fra Cristobal Range)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous and early Tertiary (Paleocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: on east shore of Hall Lake, northeast of Elephant Butte and south of McRae Canyon, Sierra Co., southwestern NM. Named from Hall Lake, which is formal name of lake backed up by Elephant Butte Dam (Bushnell, 1955).
AAPG geologic province:
Orogrande basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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