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  • Usage in publication:
    • Beartrap Canyon Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Orogrande basin
Publication:

Osburn, G.R., and Chapin, C.E., 1983, Nomenclature for Cenozoic rocks of northeast Mogollon-Datil volcanic field, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Stratigraphic Chart, no. 1.


Summary:

Should not be used outside northern San Mateo Range, Socorro Co, NM, Orogrande basin. Original definition included cauldron-fill units of two or more overlapping cauldrons in the northern San Mateo Mountains that range from about 30 m.y. to 14 m.y.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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