Usage:
Skull Ridge Member of Tesuque Formation of Santa Fe Group (NM)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (Miocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (composite): (1) lower part on a fault block south of Arroyo Seco, in N/2 sec. 21, T. 20 N., R. 9 E., Santa Fe Co., NM; (2) upper part between Arroyo Seco and White Operation Wash, paralleling boundary between secs. 8 and 17, T. 20 N., R. 9 E., Santa Fe Co., NM (Galusha and Blick, 1971).
AAPG geologic province:
Estancia basin
San Juan basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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