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The Kelly Limestone consists of approximately 30 meters (98 ft) of marine limestone. [1] It is found in the Lemitar, Ladron, and Magdalena Mountains of west-central New Mexico, US. [2] The formation rests on Precambrian basement rock and is overlain by the Sandia Formation. The Kelly Limestone is divided into a lower Calosa Member and an upper ...
A great dune sea, or erg, spread across northern New Mexico and deposited the sandstone of the Entrada Formation. [40] This was followed by flooding of northern New Mexico by an arm of the Sundance Sea, leading to deposition of the limestone and gypsum beds of the Todilto Formation.
The formation was first named by E.D. Cope in 1882 for exposures at Lake Valley, Sierra County, New Mexico. [3] In 1941, Laudon and Bowsher removed the lowermost beds into the Caballero Formation and divided the Lake Valley Limestone into the Alamgordo, Arcente, and Dona Ana Members. [4] In 1949, they added the Andrecito, Nunn, and Tierra ...
Greenhorn Limestone. The Jetmore Chalk Member of the Greenhorn Formation in Kansas. The Greenhorn Limestone or Greenhorn Formation is a geologic formation in the Great Plains Region of the United States, dating to the Cenomanian and Turonian ages of the Late Cretaceous period. The formation gives its name to the Greenhorn cycle of the Western ...
Town of La Madera, New Mexico. Named by. Charles Rollin Keyes. Year defined. 1903. Madera Group (New Mexico) Outcrops of Madera Group in New Mexico. The Madera Group is a group of geologic formations in northern New Mexico. Its fossil assemblage dates the formation to the middle to late Pennsylvanian period .
Named by. W.T. Lee. Year defined. 1909. San Andres Formation, United States (New Mexico) San Andres Formation caps Sierra de la Cruz northeast of Socorro, New Mexico, USA. The San Andres Formation is a geologic formation found in New Mexico and Texas. It contains fossils characteristic of the late Leonardian (Kungurian) Age) of the Permian Period.
The Sandia Mountains are the most visited range in New Mexico. Numerous hiking trails exist on both sides of the range, such as the popular La Luz Trail and Crest Trail. Much of the west side of the range is included in the Sandia Mountain Wilderness; the trails on that side are steeper, and water is very scarce.
The Delaware Basin is a geologic depositional and structural basin in West Texas and southern New Mexico, famous for holding large oil fields and for a fossilized reef exposed at the surface. Guadalupe Mountains National Park and Carlsbad Caverns National Park protect part of the basin. It is part of the larger Permian Basin, itself contained ...
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