Usage:
Puye Formation of Santa Fe Group (NM*)
Puye Gravel of Santa Fe Group (NM)
Puye Formation (NM)
Subunits:
Totavi Lentil (NM*) or Totavi Member (NM).
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (middle to late Pliocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures in valley of Chama River, Abiquiu quadrangle, Rio Arriba Co., north-central NM (Smith, 1938).
Type locality: outcrops in Guaje Canyon and along Puye Escarpment in the Los Alamos area (Griggs and Hem, 1964).
Type section: measured in NW/4 NE/4 SW/4 sec. 11, T. 19 N., R. 7 E., Jemez Mountains, Santa Fe Co., north-central NM (Griggs and Hem, 1964).
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.
"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 ([ ]).