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Geologic Unit: Dog Canyon

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Dog Canyon Limestone (NM) replaced with Goat Seep Limestone. See Goat Seep.)


Geologic age:

Middle Permian (Guadalupian)


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

Type locality not designated. Exposed on west flank of Guadalupe Mountains, in Dog Canyon, Pecos Valley region, Otero Co., southeastern NM (Lang, 1937).


AAPG geologic province:

Permian basin
Orogrande basin


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

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