Artesia Group of New Mexico and West Texas

Tait, D. B.; Ahlen, J.; Gordon, Andrew; Scott, Gerald L.; Motts, Ward Sundt; Spitler, M. E.

doi:10.1306/bc74383b-16be-11d7-8645000102c1865d

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“…The Bernal Formation is named for exposures of fine-to medium-grained brownish-red sandstone, siltstone and red to purple shale that crop out in the southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains near the village of Bernal (Bachman, 1953;Baltz, 1965). It is correlative with the Artesia Group of southeastern New Mexico (Tait et al, 1962). In the subsurface of the Las Vegas Basin, the Bernal consists of fine-to medium-grained, moderately sorted, light-to medium-gray sandstone and interbedded dark-red to maroon silty shales.…”

Section: Glorieta Sandstone (Permian: Leonardian?)mentioning

confidence: 99%

The natural gas potential of north-central New Mexico: Colfax, Mora and Taos counties

Broadhead¹

2008

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Several major tectonic elements are present in Colfax, Mora and Taos Counties of north-central New Mexico. The Sangre de Cristo uplift trends north-south through eastern Taos and western Mora Counties and separates two basinal areas. The Raton and Las Vegas Basins are present east of the uplift. These two basins are divided by the east-west trending Cimarron arch. Precambrian basement in the Raton and Las Vegas Basins rises gradually eastward onto the Sierra Grande uplift. Both the Raton and Las Vegas Basins are Laramide in age but have Pennsylvanian ancestry. The San Luis Basin lies west of the Sangre de Cristo uplift; it is a Tertiary-age basin that is part of the Rio Grande rift. Gas has been produced from the Raton and Las Vegas Basins. Late Cretaceous to Early Tertiary coals of the Vermejo and Raton Formations have produced 128 billion ft 3 gas. Another 173 million ft 3 gas has been produced from a single well in the Pierre and Niobrara Shales (Late Cretaceous) in the Raton Basin. On the east flank of the Las Vegas Basin, 97 million ft 3 gas have been produced from the ultra-shallow Dakota (Cretaceous) and Morrison (Jurassic) sandstones at the Wagon Mound field.

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Section: Glorieta Sandstone (Permian: Leonardian?)mentioning

confidence: 99%