Usage:
Wimsattville Formation (NM-recognized locally in Wimsattville basin)
Geologic age:
Tertiary, early
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Occurs in Santa Rita quadrangle, Grant Co., NM, where it is restricted to the Wimsattville basin. Origin of name not stated by authors, but probably named from the basin (Hernon and others, 1953).
AAPG geologic province:
Basin-and-Range province
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