Usage:
Rhodes Canyon Member of Contadero Formation (NM*)
Rhodes Canyon Formation (NM*)
Geologic age:
late Late Devonian (Famennian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section not designated (Flower, 1958).
Rhodes Canyon, San Andres Mountains, [Socorro] Co., NM (Cooper and Dutro, 1984).
AAPG geologic province:
Orogrande 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 ([ ]).