- Usage in publication:
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- Bonney Canyon Member
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Dolomite
- Limestone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Orogrande basin
Summary:
Pg. 12-13. Bonney Canyon Member of San Andres Formation. Middle member of San Andres Formation. Thin- to medium-bedded, mostly light- to medium-gray, brownish-gray, fine-grained dolomite and limestone. Thickness 150 feet at type. Overlies Rio Bonito Member and underlies Fourmile Draw Member, both of San Andres Formation. Age is Early Permian (Leonardian).
Type locality: north side of Hondo Canyon, in sec. 24, T. 11 S., R. 20 E., Lincoln Co., southeastern NM, where base of section is mapped at the top of the cliffy rise above the road. Named from exposures in Bonney Canyon, a tributary of the Hondo River south of Riverside. Mapped into Guadalupe Mountains; becomes unrecognizable south of T. 25 S.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX); US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1520, p. 35).
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