- Usage in publication:
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- Hidden View Terrace deposits
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Sand
- Gravel
- Caliche
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Basin-and-Range province
Summary:
Named [informally] for Hidden View Ranch Rd. Type locality near junction of road with Cave Creek, Cave Creek quad, northern Maricopa Co., central AZ. These lowest of Cave Creek terrace gravels are paired and well preserved along Cave Creek; lie approx 7 to 20 feet above modern stream channel. Consist of tan to brown, unconsolidated, moderately to poorly sorted, rounded to subrounded sand and gravel in brown sandy-silt matrix. Thin caliche rinds on coarse gravel and boulders but no plugs formed. Total thickness varies from 16 to 26 feet (Gorey, 1990). Deposits become strath terrace near Go John Mountain where they unconformably overlie Precambrian meta-argillite-phyllite complex and Middle Proterozoic (1400 Ma) Go John Diorite (new); described as fill terrace deposits along northern part of Cave Creek where they unconformably overlie late Miocene and early Pliocene Galloway and Naked Girl Canyon Members of Carefree Formation (all new). Age is Pleistocene. Report includes geologic map and cross section, and stratigraphic nomenclature table.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).
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