Usage:
No current usage.
(†Hopewell series [informal] (NM) replaced with Vadito Formation [now Vadito Group]. See Vadito.)
Geologic age:
late Early to early Mesoproterozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not stated. Origin of name not stated, but probably named from town of Hopewell. Mapped in Picuris and Petaca areas between towns of Hopewell on northwest and Picuris on southeast, Rio Arriba and Taos Cos., NM (Just, 1937).
AAPG geologic province:
Southern Rocky Mountain region
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