Usage:
Panther Seep Formation (NM*,TX?)
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: in SE/4 sec. 14, T. 13 S., R. 3 E., [near Towner Well, btw. Rhodes Canyon and Bosque Canyon, Hardscrabble Mountains 7.5-min quadrangle], Sierra Co., southwestern NM. Named from Panther Seep Spring, in sec. 25, T. 12 S., R. 2 E., [Lat. 33 deg. 14 min. 17 sec. N., Long 106 deg. 40 min. 42 sec. W ., Hardscrabble Mountains 7.5-min quadrangle, Sierra Co., southwestern NM] (Kottlowski and others, 1956).
AAPG geologic province:
Orogrande 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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