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General: Lower Ochoan series (uppermost Permian) strata. Principally evaporites.
Included geologic units: Principally the Salada Formation; may include some Castile Formation along the margin of the Delaware Basin.
Primary input data: Well data from the BRACS database, Broadhead and Ulmer-Scholle (2012), NM OCD (2018), and Standen et al. (2009) [for the Capitan Limestone, shelf margin-equivalent of the Artesia Group]; cross-sections from Newton et al. (2012) and G.C. Rawling (unpublished); geologic map from NMBGMR (2003). |