- Usage in publication:
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- Augite Vent basalt
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Basalt
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Sierra Grande uplift
Summary:
Pg. 154. Name applied to basalts erupted from Augite Vents. Augite Vents are a pair of deeply eroded small cinder cones about 2 miles south of Folsom, Union County. Mentioned in discussion of geology of the Raton, Capulin Mountains, and Clayton area, northeastern New Mexico. Age is Tertiary.
See also W.R. Muehlberger, Brewster Baldwin, and R.W. Foster, 1961, New Mexico Bur. Mines and Min. Res., Scenic trips to the geologic past, no. 7, p. 37.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1350, p. 35).
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