Nakaye Formation
The Nakaye Formation is a geologic formation in the Caballo Mountains of New Mexico. It preserves fossils dating back to the middle Pennsylvanian.Description
The Nakaye Formation is mostly massive ledges of gray to dark gray, very fine to fine grained limestone with considerable bands, lenses,and nodules of chert. Typical beds are in thickness and are separated by shale beds thick or thin to medium-bedded limestone thick. Sandstone is absent.
The formation is thick and lies conformably on the Red House Formation. It is overlain by the Bar B Formation.
The formation is of middle Pennsylvanian age and may correlate with the Lead Camp Limestone in the San Andres Mountains, the Gobbler Formation in the Sacramento Mountains, and the Los Moyos Limestone of the Manzano Mountains.History of investigation
The formation was first defined by V.C.Kelley and Caswell Silver in 1952. Bachman and Myers criticized its definition in 1975, but it is accepted by Kues and Giles.Footnotes
