Usage:
[?] Uvas Andesite (NM)
[?] Uvas Basalt (NM)
Called Uvas Basaltic Andesite in some reports.
Subunits:
Coyote Canyon Fanglomerate (NM).
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Oligocene, late
Miocene, early
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Crops out along the Rio Grande Valley, and in Dona Ana, Robledo, and Picacho Mountains, Dona Ana Co., NM. Origin of name not stated by author (Kottlowski, 1953).
AAPG geologic province:
Orogrande basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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