Hueco Formation

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Hueco Formation
Stratigraphic range: early Permian
Type Formation
Underlies Wilkie Ranch Formation
Overlies Panther Seep Formation
Thickness5,000 feet (1,500 m)
Lithology
Primary Limestone
Other Shale, sandstone
Location
Coordinates 31°57′11″N106°01′37″W / 31.953°N 106.027°W / 31.953; -106.027
Region Texas
Country United States
Type section
Named for Hueco Mountains
Named byG.B. Richardson
Year defined1904
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Hueco Formation (the United States)
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Hueco Formation (Texas)

The Hueco Formation is a geologic formation in west Texas and southern New Mexico. [1] [2] [3] It preserves fossils dating back to the early Permian period. [4] [5]

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Description

The formation is composed most of massive gray fossiliferous limestone with some shale and sandstone, with a thickness in excess of 5,000 feet (1,500 m). It overlies the Panther Seep Formation [6] with a slight disconformity, and its base is typically a thick biostromal limestone bed. [7] The formation unconformably underlies the Wilkie Ranch Formation. [8] It intertongues with the Abo Formation in the southern San Andres Mountains. [5]

In the Robledo Mountains, the Hueco is promoted to group rank and divided into (in ascending stratigraphic order) the Shalem Colony, Community Pit, Robledo Mountains, and Apache Dam Formations. [9] In the Hueco Mountains, the uppermost formation is the Alacran Mountain Formation. [10]

The Hueco Formation is contemporary with the Abo Formation and represents continued marine sediment deposition south of the prograding Abo deltas. [7]

History of investigation

The formation was first defined by G.B. Richardson in 1904, but mistakenly thought to be Pennsylvanian in age. [1] Nelson dated the formation as earliest Permian in the Franklin Mountains in 1940. [4] Spencer G. Lucas et al. promoted the formation to group rank in 1998. [9]

See also

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Richardson 1904
  2. Richardson 1908
  3. Richardson 1914
  4. 1 2 Nelson 1940
  5. 1 2 Bachman and Hayes 1958
  6. Kelley and Matheny 1983
  7. 1 2 Kues and Giles 2004
  8. Cys 1976
  9. 1 2 Lucas et al. 1998
  10. Williams 1963

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