Usage:
Wall Lake Member of Bearwallow Mountain Formation (NM)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (Miocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Wall Lake south of [Beaverhead ranger station, Gila National Forest, in sec. 10, T. 11 S., R. 12 W., Wall Lake 7.5-min quadrangle, Catron Co.], Mogollon Plateau, central western NM (Elston, 1968).
AAPG geologic province:
Orogrande basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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