Usage:
No current usage.
(†Potato Canyon Rhyolite (NM), †Potato Canyon Tuff (NM), or †Potato Canyon Rhyolite Tuff (NM) replaced with Lemitar Tuff. See Lemitar.)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Oligocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: Potato Canyon, in sec. 12, T. 5 S., R. 6 W., Socorro Co., central NM (Deal and Rhodes, 1976).
AAPG geologic province:
Orogrande basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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