Usage:
No current usage.
(†Bone Canyon Member of Delaware Mountain Formation (TX) or †Bone Canyon Limestone (TX) is same as Bone Springs Limestone (later Bone Spring Limestone). See Bone Spring.)
Geologic age:
early Permian (Leonardian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Bone Canyon, on west side of Guadalupe Mountains, Culberson Co., western TX, where well exposed (King and King, 1929).
AAPG geologic province:
Permian basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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