Usage:
Pescado Tongue of Mancos Shale (AZ*,NM*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Turonian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from typical exposures on north side of valley of Pescado Creek, below village of Pescado, in sec. 32, T. 11 N., R. 17 W., and sec. 5, T. 10 N., R. 17 W., Zuni Indian Reservation, McKinley Co., NM (Pike, 1947).
AAPG geologic province:
San Juan basin*
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 ([ ]).