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  • Usage in publication:
    • Azotea tongue
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Permian basin
Publication:

Lang, W.B., 1937, The Permian formations of the Pecos Valley of New Mexico and Texas: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 21, no. 7, p. 833-898. [Available online, with subscription, from AAPG archives: http://www.aapg.org/datasystems or http://search.datapages.com]


Summary:

Azotea tongue of Carlsbad limestone. Recognized in reef zone, Pecos Valley, southeastern New Mexico. The part of Carlsbad limestone that caps western Azotea Mesa and overlies Seven Rivers gypsiferous member of Chalk Bluff formation is here named Azotea tongue. Thickness 50 feet. Age is middle Permian.
Type locality not designated. Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from Azotea Mesa, Guadalupe Mountains area, Eddy Co., NM.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 98).


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