Usage:
Hunter Wash Member of Kirtland Formation (NM)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: along Hunter Wash, in secs. 23 through 28, 33, and 34, T. 24 N., R. 13 W., and in secs. 8, 9, and 16 through 20, T. 24 N., R.12 W. (=Reeside's Section 15, USGS Prof. Paper 134, pl. 2, 1924), San Juan Co., northwestern NM. Named from local wash rather than from the local Hunter Wash paleontological fauna (as proposed by Clemens, 1973) (Hunt and Lucas, 1992).
AAPG geologic province:
San Juan basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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