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Geologic Unit: Forty-niner

Usage:

Forty-niner Member of Rustler Formation (NM*,TX?)


Geologic age:

Permian, Late*


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

Not designated. Named from Forty-niner Ridge, in T. 22 N., R. 30 E., on east side of Nash Draw, Eddy Co., NM (Vine, 1963).


AAPG geologic province:

Permian basin*


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

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