Usage:
Mineral Creek Andesite (NM*)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (late Oligocene; Chattian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures in south walls of Mineral Creek Canyon above Cooney Mine, Mogollon district, [Mogollon 7.5-min quadrangle, Catron Co., western NM] (Ferguson, 1927, USGS Bull. 787; U.S. geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Basin-and-Range province*
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 ([ ]).