Usage:
Artesia Group (NM*,TX*)
Artesia Formation (NM)
Subunits:
GROUP STATUS (alphabetical) --all in NM*,TX*: Grayburg Formation, Queen Formation, Seven Rivers Formation, Tansill Formation, Yates Formation or Yates Sandstone.
Geologic age:
Middle Permian (Guadalupian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from town of Artesia in Pecos River Valley, NM, a few mi northeast of extensive exposures of component formations of group, and from Artesia field, in T. 18 S., R. 28 E., Eddy Co., NM, in which formations of group are extensively recognized in subsurface (Tait and others, 1962).
Reference section (subsurface): depth-interval 1,040 to 2,750 ft, Humble Oil and Refining Company Federal Bogle No. 1 well, in sec. 30, T. 16 S., R. 30 E., Eddy Co., NM (Tait and others, 1962).
AAPG geologic province:
Estancia basin
Palo Duro basin
Permian basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).