- Usage in publication:
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- Chiricahua Rhyolite
- Modifications:
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- Incidental mention
- Dominant lithology:
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- Rhyolite
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Pedregosa basin
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.]
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