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Geologic Unit: Rock House Canyon

Usage:

Rock House Canyon Tuff of Datil Group (NM*)


Geologic age:

Tertiary*
Oligocene*


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

Type section: in SW/4 sec. 13, T. 1 N., R. 8 W., Socorro Co., central NM. Named from Rock House Canyon, Socorro Co., central NM (Osburn and Chapin, 1983).


AAPG geologic province:

Orogrande basin*
Basin-and-Range province*


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 ([ ]).