Usage:
Bell Top Formation (NM)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Oligocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality not stated. Exposed in Las Cruces region of Rio Grande Valley, southwestern NM (Kottlowski, 1953).
AAPG geologic province:
Orogrande basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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