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  • Usage in publication:
    • Alum Mountain Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Andesite
    • Latite
    • Breccia
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Basin-and-Range province
Publication:

Elston, W.E., 1968, Terminology and distribution of ash-flows of the Mogollon-Silver City-Lordsburg region, New Mexico, IN Titley, S.R., ed., Southern Arizona guidebook III: Arizona Geological Society Guidebook, p. 231-240.


Summary:

Pg. 238, fig. 2. Alum Mountain Formation. Consists of andesite flows and flow breccias succeeded upward by dark-colored latite flows and breccias (p. 274; field trip stop 12, Gila Canyon). Younger than Tadpole Ridge Quartz Latite and older than Bloodgood Canyon Tuff. Age is Oligocene.
Type locality: Alum Mountain, northeastern Grant Co., southwestern NM. Named from Alum Mountain.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1520, p. 8); supplemental information from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • volcanic complex of Alum Mountain
  • Modifications:
    • Geochronologic dating
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Basin-and-Range province
Publication:

Marvin, R.F., and Dobson, S.W., 1979, U.S. Geological Survey radiometric ages; Compilation "B": Isochron/West, no. 26, p. 3-32.


Summary:

Pg. 25-26, geologic time scale (inside front cover). volcanic complex of Alum Mountain. Sample from fine-grained granite dike, in gulch about 0.4 km west of NM Highway 756, in S/2 sec. 17, T. 14 S., R. 13 W., Lat. 33 deg. 04 min. 31 sec. N., Long. 108 deg. 21 min. 26 sec. W., Copperas Peak quadrangle, Grant County, New Mexico, yielded a K-Ar age of 30.4 +/-0.7 Ma. Age 29.7 Ma reported by Ratte and Gaskill (1975); recalculated using decay constants of Steiger and Jager, 1977 (Earth Planet. Sci. Letters, v. 36, p. 359-362). [Oligocene, based on time scale of Berggren, 1972, Lethaia, v. 5, no. 2, p. 195-215.]

Source: Publication.


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