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  • Usage in publication:
    • Bernalillo shales
    • Bernalillo terrane
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Shale
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Estancia basin
Publication:

Keyes, C.R., 1903, Geological formations of New Mexico, IN Report of the Governor of New Mexico to the Secretary of the Interior, 1903: U.S. Government Printing Office, p. 337-340.


Summary:

Pg. 337-341; C.R. Keyes, 1903, Ore and Metals, v. 12, p. 48. Bernalillo shales; Bernalillo terrane. Series of red shales and sandstones. Thickness 1,000 feet. Younger than Coyote sandstone. Permo-Carboniferous.
[Origin of name not stated.] Notable exposures in Sandia Mountains, NM.

Source: Modified from US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 169).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Bernalillo shales
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Estancia basin
Publication:

Keyes, C.R., 1922, Stratigraphical geology: Pan-American Geologist, v. 37.


Summary:

Pg. 426. The so-called Bernalillo shales comprise Abo red beds and Yeso pink beds. [Age is Permian.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 169).


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  • Usage in publication:
    • Bernalillo shales†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Estancia basin
Publication:

Kues, B.S., Lucas, S.G., and Ingersoll, R.V., 1982, Lexicon of Phanerozoic stratigraphic names used in the Albuquerque area [New Mexico], IN Grambling, J.A., and others, eds., Albuquerque country II: New Mexico Geological Society Field Conference Guidebook, no. 33, p. 125-138.


Summary:

Pg. 126. †Bernalillo shales. Name used by Keyes (1903a, b) for a sequence of red shales and sandstones in Manzano Mountains [and Sandia Mountains], New Mexico (Madera, Bursum, and Abo formations of modern usage); Jicha and Lochman-Balk (1958, New Mexico Bur. Mines and Mineral Res. Bull., no. 61) recommended suppression of the name.

Source: Publication.


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