Usage:
/Jose Member of Hitt Canyon Formation of El Paso Group (NM,TX)
[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Jose Shale Member of Yegua Formation by Patterson (1942) in TX.]
Geologic age:
Early Ordovician (Tremadocian; Stairsian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: northern end of Cooks Range, Florida Mountains, Luna Co., NM. Named from Jose mining district in Cooks Range, Luna Co., NM (Flower, 1964).
AAPG geologic province:
Basin-and-Range province
Orogrande basin
Permian basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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