Usage:
Rincon Ridge metamorphics [informal] (NM)
Considered informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Precambrian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from exposures on Rincon Ridge, Sandia Mountains, Bernalillo and Sandoval Cos., NM (Kelley and Northrop, 1975).
AAPG geologic province:
Southern Rocky Mountain region
Southwestern Basin-and-Range region
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 ([ ]).