Usage:
Otowi Member of Bandelier Tuff of Tewa Group (NM*)
Subunits:
Guaje Pumic Bed (NM*).
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: Otowi section of Bandelier National Monument. Named for exposures in vicinity of Otowi ruins, NE/4 NE/4 sec. 18, T. 19 N., R. 7 E., in Pueblo Canyon, Bandelier National Monument, [Espanola 15-min quadrangle], Santa Fe Co., north-central NM (Griggs and Hem, 1964).
AAPG geologic province:
Estancia basin*
Palo Duro basin*
Permian basin*
San Juan basin*
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 ([ ]).