Includes deposits of higher gradient tributaries bordering major stream valleys, alluvial veneers of the piedmont slope, and alluvial fans. May locally include uppermost Pliocene deposits.
Upper Chinle Group, Garita Creek through Redonda Formations, undivided
Includes Moenkopi Formation (Middle Triassic) at base in most areas.
Alluvium
Shelf facies forming broad south-southeast trending outcrop from Glorieta to Artesia area; includes Tansill, Yates, Seven Rivers, Queen and Grayburg Formations (Guadalupian). May locally include Moenkopi Formation (Triassic) at top.
Limestone and dolomite with minor shale. Guadalupian in south, in part Leonardian to north.
Alluvial and eolian deposits, and petrocalcic soils of the southern High Plains. Locally includes Qoa.
Garita Creek Formation
Includes scattered lacustrine, playa, and alluvial deposits of the Tahoka, Double Tanks, Tule, Blanco, Blackwater Draw, and Gatuna Formations, the latter of which may be Pliocene at base; outcrops, however, are basically of Quaternary deposits.
Trujillo Formation
Texturally and mineralogically mature, high-silica quartz sandstone.
Consists of Entrada Sandstone, Todilto and Summerville Formations, Bluff Sandstone, and locally Zuni Sandstone (or only Acoma Tongue of Zuni).
Upper Jurassic nonmarine rocks.
Consists of Dakota Group, which includes Romeroville Sandstone (Cenomanian), Pajarito Shale, and Mesa Rica Sandstone (Albian); the underlying Tucumcari Shale (Albian) in Tucumcari area and Glencairn Formation (Albian) in Union County.
Includes associated alluvial and eolian deposits of major lake basins.
Entrada Sandstone