Usage:
Lake Valley Limestone (NM*, and TX-recognized locally in extreme west TX)
Lake Valley Formation (NM*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in NM: Alamogordo Member*, Andrecito Member*, Arcente Member*, Dona Ana Member*, Nunn Member*, Table Top Member, Tierra Blanca Member*.
Geologic age:
Early Mississippian (Tournaisian; Kinderhookian to Osagean)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not synopsized to date.
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 ([ ]).