Usage:
No current usage.
(†Aqua Torres Formation (NM-local) replaced with Bursum Formation. See Bursum.)
Geologic age:
early Permian (Wolfcampian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type exposure in the Arroyo Aqua Torres [now Agua de los Torres] in southern part of Los Pinos Mountains, Socorro Co., central NM (Stark and Dapples, 1946).
AAPG geologic province:
Estancia basin
Orogrande basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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