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  • Usage in publication:
    • Agua Caliente gabbro
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Gabbro
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Southern Rocky Mountain region
Publication:

Just, Evan, 1937, Geology and economic features of the pegmatites of Taos and Rio Arriba Counties, New Mexico: New Mexico School of Mines Bulletin, no. 13, 73 p.


Summary:

Pg. 11, 25. Agua Caliente gabbro. Gabbroic rocks; not schistose. Suggests that they may be intrusive and of Keweenawan age [Precambrian].
[Type locality not designated.] Notable exposures on one of southern tributaries of Agua Caliente Creek, Picuris area, [in sec. 33, T. 24 N., R. 11 E., and secs. 2, 3, and 12, T. 23 N., R. 11 E., Taos Co.], central northern NM.

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