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  • Usage in publication:
    • Anderson Mesa Flow
    • Anderson Mesa Basalt
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Basalt
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Plateau sedimentary province
Publication:

Colton, H.S., 1967, The basaltic cinder cones and lava flows of the San Francisco Mountains volcanic field: Flagstaff, AZ, Northland Press, __ p., See also 1937 publication, Mus. Northern Arizona Bull., no. 10


Summary:

Pg. 53. According to Damon (1965, Reports to Atomic Energy Comm. by Univ. of Arizona) Stage 1 Anderson Mesa lava flow has K-Ar date of 6.2 +/-1.2 m.y. (Pliocene). [Damon, 1965, referred to the basalt flows on Anderson Mesa but did not use formal term Anderson Mesa Flow].

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