Geologic Unit: Santa Fe

Usage:

Santa Fe Group (NM*,TX)
Santa Fe Formation (CO*,NM*)

Subunits:

GROUP STATUS (alphabetical): Ancha Formation (NM*), Arroyo Ojito Formation (NM), Camp Rice Formation (NM,TX), Cerro Conejo Formation (NM), Chamita Formation (NM), [?]Cuerbio Basalt (NM), Fort Hancock Formation (NM,TX), Hayner Ranch Formation (NM), Magdalena Peak Rhyolite (NM), Palomas Formation (NM), Popotosa Formation (NM*), Puye Gravel (NM) or Puye Formation (NM*), Rincon Valley Formation (NM), Sierra Ladrones Formation (NM*), Socorro Peak Rhyolite (NM), Tesuque Formation (NM*).
FORMATION STATUS (alphabetical) --all in NM: Abiquiu Tuff Member, [?]Zia Member.

Geologic age:

Tertiary (Oligocene to Pliocene)*; locally includes Quaternary (Pleistocene) age deposits*

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

Notable exposures in greater portion of Rio Grande Valley, Santa Fe Co., NM (Hayden, 1869).
[Type locality/area inferred by later workers as only those deposits (identified by Hayden) in gulches cut by tributaries of Rio Grande, extending 40 mi north of Santa Fe.]

AAPG geologic province:

Basin-and-Range province
Denver basin*
Estancia basin*
Las Vegas-Raton basin*
Orogrande basin*
San Juan basin*
San Luis basin*