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  • Usage in publication:
    • Chiricahua Rhyolite
  • Modifications:
    • Incidental mention
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Rhyolite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Pedregosa basin
Publication:

Kottlowski, F.E., 1963, Paleozoic and Mesozoic strata of southwestern and south-central New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Bulletin, no. 79, 100 p.


Summary:

Pg. 83. Chiricahua Rhyolite. Incidental mention in discussion of Paleozoic and Mesozoic strata of southwestern and south-central New Mexico. Age is Tertiary(?).
[Type locality and origin of name unknown. Name applied to rocks in Pedragosa Mountains, Cochise Co., southeastern AZ in PhD dissert. by R.C. Epis.]
[note to me: check --???same as Chiricahua Andesite of Fernandez and Enlows (1966); GNU filed index cards together.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1350, p. 151); GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


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