Usage:
/Bluff Creek Formation (NM)
[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Bluff Creek Shale by Drake (1893) in TX.]
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures near Bluff Creek, in S/2 of T. 31 S., R. 17 W., south-central part of Walnut Wells quadrangle, Hidalgo Co., southwestern NM (Zeller and Alper, 1965).
AAPG geologic province:
Pedregosa basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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