Usage:
Kelly Limestone (NM*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in NM*: Caloso Member, Ladron Member.
Geologic age:
Early to Middle Mississippian (Tournaisian to Visean; Osagean to Meramecian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from town of Kelly, Magdalena mining district, [Magdalena 15-min quadrangle], Socorro Co., central NM (Gordon, 1907, Amer. Jour. Sci, v. 24; US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 896).
Type section: outcrop on crest of Magdalena Mountains, [northeast of Kelly], in NE/4 SW/4 sec. 31, T. 2 S., R. 3 W., [Magdalena 7.5-min quadrangle], Socorro Co., central NM (Armstrong and Mamet, 1976).
AAPG geologic province:
Basin-and-Range province
Orogrande basin*
Pedregosa 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 ([ ]).