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Geologic Unit: Bug Scuffle

Usage:

Bug Scuffle Limestone Member of Gobbler Formation (NM)


Subunits:

DELETED from usage: Bug Scuffle Limestone Member of Gobbler Formation of Magdalena Group (NM)


Geologic age:

Middle to Late Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian to Missourian)


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section: on Long Ridge, in sec. 15, T. 17 S., R. 10 E., Otero Co., NM. Named from Bug Scuffle Canyon, Bug Scuffle Hill, and Bug Scuffle quadrangle. (Pray, 1959).


AAPG geologic province:

Orogrande basin


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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