Usage:
Ojo Caliente Sandstone Member of Tesuque Formation of Santa Fe Group (NM)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (middle to late Miocene; Clarendonian NALMA)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: triangular area bounded on the east by Ojo Caliente River; on the southwest by Chama River; and on the west by El Rito Creek, Rio Arriba Co., north-central NM. Named from the Ojo Caliente River (Galusha and Blick, 1971).
AAPG geologic province:
San Juan basin
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