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  • Usage in publication:
    • Bonita Park formation
  • Modifications:
    • Mapped
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Redbeds
    • Tuff
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Pedregosa basin
Publication:

Enlows, H.E., 1955, Welded tuffs of Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 66, no. 10, p. 1215-1246.


Summary:

Pg. 1216 (table 1), pl. 1 (geol. map). Bonita Park formation. Discussion of sequence of rocks in Chiricahua National Monument, Cochise County, southeastern Arizona. Chiricahua limestone is succeeded by thick section of Lower Cretaceous Bisbee group with recognizable Glance conglomerate at base, and in turn, by section of what appears to be Morita formation. This sequence of Lower Cretaceous rocks is apparently similar to Outlaw formation (Raydon, unpub. thesis) described from area east of Paradise. Above Bisbee group is a 300-foot sequence of red beds and associated tuff named Bonita Park formation (Waller, unpub. thesis). May be equivalent to some of volcanic sediments of Raydon's Blacktail formation. The Bonita Park unconformably underlies Faraway Ranch formation in Hands Pass region, just east of the Monument. Age is Cenozoic.
Mapped at Bonita Park, [in SW/4 sec. 18, T. 16 S., R. 30 E., Cochise Head 7.5-min quadrangle], Chiricahua National Monument, Cochise Co., southeastern AZ.
[Additional locality information from USGS historical topographic map collection TopoView, accessed July 24, 2018.]

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