- Usage in publication:
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- Baby Capulin 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. 132, 144, pls. 1b, 13. Baby Capulin basalt. Meduim dark-gray porphyritic vesicular basalt. Usually has scattered, large olivine phenocrysts. This flow was last volcanic event of northwestern Union County. Lies within levees of Twin Mountain (new) or Purvine Hills basalt (new). Age is Late Cenozoic.
Derived from vent of Baby Capulin, a small cylinder cone that lies about midway between Capulin Mountain and Folsom village, in sec. 36, T. 30 N., R. 28 E., Union Co., northeastern NM.
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