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Geologic Units: Lagunitas
  • Usage in publication:
    • Lagunitas clastic member
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Volcaniclastics
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • San Juan basin
Publication:

Muehlberger, W.R., Adams, G.E., Longgood, T.E., Jr., and St. John, B.E., 1960, Stratigraphy of the Chama quadrangle, northern Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, IN Beaumont, E.C., and Read, C.B., eds., Guidebook of the Rio Chama Country [New Mexico and Colorado]: New Mexico Geological Society Field Conference Guidebook, no. 11, p. 93-102.


Summary:

Pg. 100-101. Lagunitas clastic member of Treasure Mountain rhyolite. Name credited to E.L. Trice (unpub. thesis). Interbedded and parallel-bedded volcanic sandstone, volcanic conglomerate, tuffaceous mudstone, and tuffaceous breccia. Thickness 232 feet. Overlies Toltec andesite member (new); underlies Osier Mountain member (new). Age is late Miocene.
Type locality not stated. Crops out in Chama area, northern Rio Arriba Co., northwestern NM.

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