- Usage in publication:
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- Blue Water basalt
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Basalt
- AAPG geologic province:
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- San Juan basin
Nichols, R.L., 1936, Flow-units in basalt: Journal of Geology, v. 44, no. 5, p. 617-630.
Summary:
Pg. 628. Blue Water basalt. Occurs in San Jose Valley between Blue Water and the Rio Puerco in Valencia County [now Cibola County] west-central New Mexico. Age relations of Blue Water basalt to other basalt flows are not explained.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, Laguna entry p. 1131).
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