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  • Usage in publication:
    • Cibola Gneiss
  • Modifications:
    • First used
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Gneiss
    • Amphibolite
    • Quartzite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Southern Rocky Mountain region
    • Southwestern Basin-and-Range region
Publication:

Kelley, V.C., and Northrop, S.A., 1975, Geology of the Sandia Mountains and vicinity, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Memoir, no. 29, 135 p., (incl. geologic maps, scale 1:48,000)


Summary:

Pg. 21. Cibola Gneiss. Pink foliated gneiss with quartzite layers. Age is Precambrian X [Early Proterozoic].
Type locality: forms outcrop 1.2 km wide and 8 km long in Tijeras Canyon, center of sec. 20, T. 10 N., R. 5 E., [Tijeras 7.5-min quadrangle], Sandia Mountains, [Cibola National Forest], Bernalillo Co., north-central NM.

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