Usage:
/Raton Basalt (CO*,NM*)
[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Raton Formation of Hayden (1869) in CO and NM.]
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Pliocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named after Raton Mesa, Colfax Co., NM (Collins, 1949; Stobbe, 1949).
AAPG geologic province:
Las Vegas-Raton basin*
Sierra Grande uplift
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 ([ ]).