Usage:
No current usage.
(†Placer Mountain Group (NM) abandoned. Possibly synonymous with Mesaverde Formation (Mesaverde Group). See Mesaverde.)
Geologic age:
Tertiary, early
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from Placer Mountains, about 30 mi south of Santa Fe, NM (Hayden, 1869).
AAPG geologic province:
Estancia basin
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