State | New Mexico |
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Name | Cretaceous rocks, undivided |
Geologic age | Cretaceous |
Lithologic constituents |
Major
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone (Bed)no lith description on map - description from GEOLEX
Sedimentary > Clastic (Bed)no lith description on map - description from GEOLEX - mostly sandstone and shale
Incidental
Sedimentary > Coal (Bed)no lith description on map - description from GEOLEX
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References | Green, G.N., Jones, G.E., and Anderson, O.J., 1997, The Digital Geologic Map of New Mexico in ARC/INFO Format: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-0052, 9 p., scale 1:500,000.https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr9752 USGS Geologic Names lexicon found at: http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/search |
NGMDB product | |
Counties | Curry - Dona Ana - Quay - Roosevelt - Sierra - Socorro |