Usage:
Sarten Sandstone (NM*)
Geologic age:
late Early to early Late Cretaceous (Albian to Cenomanian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from Sarten Ridge [now Rattlesnake Ridge] in the Cook Range, north of Deming, Luna Co., NM, where well exposed (Darton, 1916).
AAPG geologic province:
Basin-and-Range province*
Orogrande basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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