Usage:
Salitral Shale Tongue of Chinle Formation (NM*)
Geologic age:
Triassic, Late*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named by Northrop and Wood (1946) from exposures 3 mi west of Coyote and 75 mi north of Albuquerque, [on Salitral Creek], Rio Arriba Co., NM (Stewart and others, 1972).
AAPG geologic province:
San Juan basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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