Usage:
Skunk Ranch Conglomerate (NM*)
Skunk Ranch Formation (NM)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Not designated.] Crops out only west and south of Skunk Ranch in Eureka section of Little Hatchet Mountains, southwestern NM (Pedregosa basin and Basin-and-Range province). Named from Skunk Ranch, in sec. 9, T. 28 S., R. 16 W. (Lasky, 1938).
AAPG geologic province:
Pedregosa 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.
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