- Usage in publication:
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- Dog Canyon limestone
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Limestone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Permian basin
- Orogrande basin
Summary:
Dog Canyon limestone. Bedded limestones more than 1,000 feet thick, which grade along their base into the thinning sandstone of Delaware Mountain formation and to south merge with middle sandstones of that formation and possibly with basal part of Capitan limestone. Is of middle Delaware Mountain age (Permian). To north gradually thins out above San Andres limestone. Overlain by Queen sandstone member of Chalk Bluff formation.
Type locality not designated. Exposed on west flank of Guadalupe Mountains, in Dog Canyon, Pecos Valley region, Otero Co., southeastern NM.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 617); supplemental information from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).
- Usage in publication:
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- Dog Canyon limestone†
- Modifications:
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- Abandoned
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Permian basin
Summary:
Pg. 588 (footnote). †Dog Canyon limestone abandoned in favor of Goat Seep limestone (new).
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1130).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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