Usage:
No current usage.
(†Three Twins Member of †Chalk Bluffs Formation (NM) abandoned.)
Geologic age:
Permian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Three Twins Hills, Pecos Valley, Eddy Co., southeastern NM, where, in Spencer Draw, a partial section is exposed (Lang, 1937).
AAPG geologic province:
Permian basin
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