Usage:
Tererro Formation of Arroyo Penasco Group (NM*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in NM*: Cowles Member, /Macho Member, Manuelitas Member, Turquillo Member.
Geologic age:
Middle to Late Mississippian (Visean to Serpukhovian; Meramecian to Chesterian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
West of the Pecos River, about 75 yds north of Holy Ghost Creek, where measured on slope above and slightly north of the quarry, Tererro, San Miguel Co., NM (Baltz and Read, 1960).
AAPG geologic province:
Las Vegas-Raton basin*
Palo Duro basin*
San Luis basin*
Estancia basin*
San Juan basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).