Usage:
Nambe Member of Tesuque Formation of Santa Fe Group (NM)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (Miocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: in parts of secs. 11, 13, and 14, T. 20 N., R. 9 E., and in part of sec. 18, T. 20 N., R. 10 E., Santa Fe Co., north-central NM (Galusha and Blick, 1971).
Type section: in sec. 11, T. 20 N., R. 9 E., Santa Fe Co., north-central NM. Named from the Nambe Indian Pueblo, 6 mi to south (Galusha and Blick, 1971).
AAPG geologic province:
Estancia basin
San Juan basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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