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Geologic Unit: Red Mountain

Usage:

Red Mountain Dacite (NM)
Red Mountain Rhyodacite (NM*)


Geologic age:

Tertiary*
Miocene*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Red Mountain (also called Bell Mountain), on Johnson Mesa in eastern Colfax Co., NM. Named from Red Mountain (Collins, 1949).


AAPG geologic province:

Las Vegas-Raton 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 ([ ]).