- Usage in publication:
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- Animas Valley basalt
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Basalt
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Pedregosa basin
Summary:
Pg. 77-78, table 1, pl. 1. Animas Valley basalt. Dark-gray to dull-black fine-grained vesicular olivine basalt. Thickness estimated to be about 60 feet, undoubtedly not uniform. Part of flow covered by valley sediments. Age is considered late Pleistocene or Recent.
[Type locality not designated.] Exposures are confined to floor of western side of Animas Valley, along southeastern side of Peloncillo Mountains, Hidalgo Co., southwestern NM.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 101); supplemental information from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).
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