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Older alluvial deposits of upland plains and piedmont areas, and calcic soils and eolian cover sediments of High Plains region

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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.
State New Mexico
Name Older alluvial deposits of upland plains and piedmont areas, and calcic soils and eolian cover sediments of High Plains region
Geologic age Middle to lower Pleistocene
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Unconsolidated (Alluvial, Lacustrine, Eolian)Older alluvial deposits of upland plains and piedmont areas, and calcic soils and eolian cover sediments of High Plains region
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
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