Usage:
No current usage.
(†Punta de la Mesa Sandstone Member of Mesaverde Formation (NM) considered an eastern extension of Gallup Sandstone Member of Mesaverde Formation. See Gallup.)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Punta de la Mesa, north of San Ignacio, Guadalupe Co., north-central NM (Herrick, 1900).
AAPG geologic province:
San Juan basin
Estancia basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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