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Geologic Unit: Houston
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Houston Andesite†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Basin-and-Range province
Publication:

Ratte, J.C., and Finnell, T.L., 1978, Geologic road log from Silver City to Reserve via Glenwood and the Mogollon mining district [New Mexico], IN Chapin, C.E., Elston, W.E., and James, H.L., eds., Field guide to selected cauldrons and mining districts of the Datil-Mogollon volcanic field, New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society Special Publication, no. 7, p. 49-63.


Summary:

Abandoned. Name replaced by Mineral Creek Andesite (locally), and by unnamed andesite flows (locally), or by a complicated mix of sandstone (Cranktown Sandstone) and andesite (locally). Is in Basin-and-Range province.

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


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