Usage:
Tres Lagunas Member of Santa Rosa Formation of Dockum Group (NM)
Geologic age:
Triassic, Late
Carnian, late
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: in N/2 NE/4 SE/4 sec. 36, T. 9 N., R. 21 E., Guadalupe Co., NM. Named from Tres Lagunas, north of Santa Rosa, Guadalupe Co., NM (Lucas and Hunt, 1987).
AAPG geologic province:
Palo Duro basin
Las Vegas-Raton basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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