Usage:
Lemitar Tuff (NM)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Oligocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: tributary canyon on north side of Canoncito de Puertecito del Lemitar (Corkscrew Canyon), 8 mi northwest of Socorro, in NW/4 SE/4 SE/4 sec. 12, T. 2 S., R. 2 W., Lemitar Mountains, Lemitar 7.5-min quadrangle, Socorro Co., central NM (Osburn and Chapin, 1983).
AAPG geologic province:
Orogrande basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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