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  • Usage in publication:
    • Dog Gulch Formation*
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
    • Geochronologic dating
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Basin-and-Range province
Publication:

Ratte, J.C., 1981, Geologic map of the Mogollon quadrangle, Catron County, New Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map, GQ-1557, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000 [http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Prodesc/proddesc_441.htm]


Summary:

Age changed from late Tertiary to Miocene. Basis for change is a date of 15.2 +/-0.4 m.y. obtained from a basalt that overlies the Dog Gulch in Bearwallow Mountain quad to east.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


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