Usage:
No current usage?
(†University Beds (NM) considered abandoned? Uncertain if used by the NM Geol. Survey. Not used by the USGS.)
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Exposed in side gulches of second canyon in valley of the Rio Grande River, Albuquerque quadrangle, Bernalillo Co., NM (Bryan, 1909).
AAPG geologic province:
Estancia 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 ([ ]).