Geologic Unit: Warmington

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Warmington Limestone Member of Elephant Butte Formation of †Armendaris Group (NM-notably in Mud Springs Mountains) considered abandoned. Rocks reallocated to Elephant Butte Member of Gray Mesa Formation of Madera Group. See Elephant Butte.)

Geologic age:

Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian)

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 village of Warmington, south of Caballo Dam, in Rio Grande Valley, Sierra Co., southwestern NM (Thompson, 1942).

AAPG geologic province:

Orogrande basin