Usage:
Valle Grande Member of Valles Rhyolite of Tewa Group (NM*)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: Valles caldera moat, Santo Domingo Pueblo quadrangle, Sandoval Co., north-central NM (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 1520).
Named from Valle Grande, the large valley in southeastern part of Valles caldera, Sandoval Co., north-central NM (Bailey and others, 1969).
AAPG geologic province:
San Juan basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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