- Usage in publication:
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- Agua Caliente gabbro
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Gabbro
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Southern Rocky Mountain region
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.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 26); supplemental information from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).
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