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Geologic Unit: Marye

Usage:

No current usage?
(†Marye Sand Member of Gallup Sandstone (NM) considered abandoned? Uncertain if used by the NM Geol. Survey. Not used by the USGS.)


Geologic age:

Late Cretaceous


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

Type section (subsurface): depth-interval 4,900 to 4,930 [ft], British American No. B-4 Marye well, in NE/4 SW/4 sec. 35, T. 26 N., R. 13 W., San Juan Co., NM (Sabins, 1963).


AAPG geologic province:

San Juan basin


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

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

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