Usage:
Picuda Peak Member of Arroyo Ojito Formation of Santa Fe Group (NM)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (late Miocene; Hemphillian NALMA)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: approx. 8 km north-northwest of Picuda Peak, Bernalillo NW 7.5-min quadrangle, Sandoval Co., north-central NM; top of measured section near UTM Zone 13s, 341,510 m E.; 3,920,520 m N., NAD 83 (Connell, 2008).
Named from exposures near Picuda Peak, Bernalillo NW 7.5-min quadrangle, Sandoval Co., north-central NM (Connell, 2008).
AAPG geologic province:
San Juan basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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