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Geologic Unit: Pecos

Usage:

Pecos Complex (NM)


Geologic age:

Paleoproterozoic


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Not designated. Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from exposures in headwaters of Pecos River, Mora and San Miguel Cos., NM (Bauer and Williams, 1989).


AAPG geologic province:

Southern Rocky Mountain region


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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