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Point Lookout Sandstone

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Regressive marine sandstone in McKinley and Sandoval Counties; the lower, Hosta Tongue, of Point Lookout is transgressive and is separated from main body by the Satan Tongue of Mancos Shale.
State New Mexico
Name Point Lookout Sandstone
Geologic age Campanian to Santonian
Lithologic constituents
Major
Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone (Bed, Arkosic)no lith description on map - description from GEOLEX
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 Cibola - McKinley - Sandoval - San Juan