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Geologic Unit: Chalk Bluff

Usage:

No current usage.
(Rocks of †Chalk Bluff Formation (NM) reallocated to Artesia Group. See Artesia.)


Geologic age:

Middle Permian (Guadalupian)


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

Notable exposures in Chalk Bluff, on east bank of Pecos River southeast of Artesia, Pecos Valley region, Eddy Co., southeastern NM (Lang, 1937).


AAPG geologic province:

Permian basin


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

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

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