Usage:
Yankee coal bed (informal) of Raton Formation (NM*)
Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Paleocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Occurs near the eastern limit of the Raton coal field. Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from town of Yankee, Colfax Co., NM (Pillmore, 1976).
AAPG geologic province:
Las Vegas-Raton 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 ([ ]).