Geologic Unit: Mud Springs

Usage:

No current usage.
(Rocks of †Mud Springs Group (NM) reallocated to Red House Formation, and to Gray Mesa Formation of Madera Group. See Gray Mesa and Red House.)

Geologic age:

Middle Pennsylvanian (Atokan)

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

Type locality (Whiskey Canyon section): in Whiskey Canyon [local name for tributary of Cuchillo Negro Creek about 5 mi northwest of Truth or Consequences], north end of Mud Springs Mountains, in S/2 sec. 1 and SE/4 sec. 2, T. 13 S., R. 5 W.; base of section at UTM Zone 13s, 283,719 m E., 3,675,991 m N., [Lat. 33 deg. 12 min. 04 sec. N., Long. 107 deg. 19 min. 13 sec. W.], top at UTM Zone 13s, 285,301 m E., 3,676,144 m N., [Lat. 33 deg. 12 min. 10 sec. N., Long. 107 deg. 18 min. 12 sec. W., Cuchillo 7.5-min quadrangle], Sierra Co., southwestern NM (Thompson, 1942; see also Lucas and others, 2016, New Mexico Mus. Nat. Hist. Sci. Bull., no. 69, Table 1).
Named from Mud Springs Mountains, north by west of Hot Springs, where well exposed (Thompson, 1942).

AAPG geologic province:

Orogrande basin