Usage:
Manuelitas Member of Tererro Formation of Arroyo Penasco Group (NM*)
Geologic age:
Middle Mississippian (Visean; Meramecian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Exposures at west end of gap 1.6 mi east of Lower Rociada, San Miguel Co., where Manuelitas Creek (from which probably named) flows eastward from the Rociada Valley into a narrow canyon, on a hill north of Manuelitas Creek about 500 ft north of the Co Road (Baltz, Read, 1960).
AAPG geologic province:
Las Vegas-Raton basin*
Palo Duro basin*
Estancia basin*
San Luis basin*
San Juan basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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