Usage:
Whitewater Creek Member of Cooney Tuff (NM*)
Whitewater Creek Rhyolite of Datil Group (NM)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Oligocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures in steep canyons along lower reaches of Whitewater and Mineral Creeks, Mogollon district, NM (Ferguson, 1927).
Type section: in SE/4 sec. 6, T. 11 S., R. 19 W., Catron Co., NM (Ratte, 1981).
AAPG geologic province:
Basin-and-Range province*
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 ([ ]).