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  • Usage in publication:
    • Blue Mountain volcanics [informal]
    • Blue Mountain lavas [informal]
  • Modifications:
    • Incidental mention
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Volcanics
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Plateau sedimentary province
Publication:

Blissenbach, E., 1952, Geology of the Aubrey Valley, south of the Hualpai Indian Reservation, northwest Arizona: Plateau, v. 24, no. 4, p. 119-127.


Summary:

Pg. 121. Blue Mountain lavas; Blue Mountain volcanics. Mentioned as overlying Blue Mountain gravels. [Age is Pliocene or later]
Exposed at Blue Mountain, Coconino Co., northwestern AZ.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 399).


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  • Usage in publication:
    • Blue Mountain basalt
  • Modifications:
    • Geochronologic dating
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Plateau sedimentary province
Publication:

Damon, P.E., 1968, Correlation and chronology of ore deposits and volcanic rocks: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Annual Progress Report, C00-689-100, 245 p., Contract AT(11-1)-689


Summary:

Blue Mountain basalt. Sample collected from northwestern flank of Blue Mountain at 5,900 ft elev., Lat. 35 deg. 35 min. 54 sec. N., Long. 113 deg. 13 min. 20 sec. W., in T. 26 N., R. 9 W., Coconino Co., AZ, yielded a K-Ar date of 14.2 +/-1.1 Ma (middle Miocene).

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


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