Usage:
Palomas Formation (NM*)
Palomas Formation of Santa Fe Group (NM)
Geologic age:
Controversial.
late Tertiary* and/or Quaternary (Pliocene and/or Pleistocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Palomas Creek which enters the Rio Grande, [in SW/4 sec. 29, T. 14 S., R. 4 W., Williamsburg 7.5-min quadrangle], Sierra Co., southwestern NM (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
Type section (composite): in NE/4 SW/4 sec. 33, T. 14 S., R. 4 W; in NW/4 NW/4 sec. 30, T. 14 S., R. 4 W.; and secs. 3 and 4, T. 14 S., R. 4 W., [Williamsburg and Palomas Gap 7.5-min quadrangles], Sierra Co., southwestern NM (Lozinsky and Hawley, 1986).
AAPG geologic province:
Basin-and-Range province*
Orogrande 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 ([ ]).