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  • Usage in publication:
    • Cibola Beds
  • Modifications:
    • Overview
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Basin-and-Range province
Publication:

Heindl, L.A., 1962, Cenozoic geology of Arizona; a 1960 resume, IN Hendl, L.A., ed., Cenozoic geology of Arizona; a symposium: Arizona Geological Society Digest, v. 5, p. 9-24.


Summary:

Pg. 13 (fig.1, 3). Cibola beds listed with late Tertiary and Quaternary units in resume of Cenozoic geology in Arizona.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1350, p. 152-153).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Cibola Beds
  • Modifications:
    • First used
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Basin-and-Range province
Publication:

Wilson, E.D., 1962, A resume of the geology of Arizona: Arizona Bureau of Mines Bulletin, no. 171.


Summary:

Pg. 72 (fig. 12). Cibola beds listed with Miocene units in resume of Arizona geology. [Wilson (1933, Arizona Bur. Mines Geol. Ser., no. 7, Bull. 134) described marine Tertiary beds southeast of Cibola, but did not use formal term Cibola Beds.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1350, p. 152-153).


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