Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †Mud Springs Mountain Formation of El Paso Group (NM) reallocated to McKelligon Limestone of El Paso Group. See McKelligon.)
Geologic age:
Early Ordovician (Ibexian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures in Mud Springs Mountains, near Hot Springs, [a few mi northwest of Truth or Consequences], Sierra Co., southwestern NM (Flower, 1964).
AAPG geologic province:
Orogrande basin
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