Usage:
Baldy Hill Formation (NM)
[?] Baldy Hill Formation of Dockum Group (CO?,OK?)
Subunits:
Cobert Canyon Bed (NM,OK).
Geologic age:
Triassic, Late
Carnian
Norian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: measured 2,000 ft north of Baldy Hill, in sec. 36, T. 32 N., R. 32 E., Union Co., northeastern NM; measured section shown on pl. 2. Exposed in an area of about 8 sq mi on the former Baker Rank, just north of junction of NM Highways 325 and 370, in eastern T. 32 N., R. 32 E., and western T. 32 N., R. 33 E. Named from Baldy Hill (Baldwin and Muehlberger, 1959).
AAPG geologic province:
Sierra Grande uplift
Palo Duro basin
Las Vegas-Raton basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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