Usage:
La Vida Beds of Allison Member of Menefee Formation of Mesaverde Group (NM*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposures in Red Hill-White Rock region, from northeast corner sec. 31, T. 22 N., R. 13 W., to top of promontory at 6200 ft elevation (with offsets to abandoned road at 6160 ft elevation), and continuing to top of southern tip of White Rock Mesa in sec. 30, Pillar 3 SE 7.5-min quadrangle, San Juan Co., NM. Named from La Vida Mission Indian School, San Juan Co., NM (Miller, 1984).
AAPG geologic province:
San Juan basin*
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