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  • Usage in publication:
    • Monte Largo Metamorphics
  • Modifications:
    • First used
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Gneiss
    • Schist
    • 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:

First published use of name applied to some quartz-feldspar gneisses, hornblende and biotite gneisses, muscovite, and hornblende schists, and quartz. Some small bodies of carbonatite. Intent to name and designation of a type not stated Probably named for Monte Largo, Bernalillo Co. Exposed 1) in a northeast-trending horst between Tijeras and Gutierrez faults, Bernalillo Co, NM in the Southwestern Basin-and-Range region, 2) in two separated areas on east side of Manzano Mountains in Bernalillo Co, and 3) across the Bernalillo-Sandoval (Southern Rocky Mountain region) Co line. Intruded by Sandia Granite (first used). Intruded locally by small bodies of carbonatite and quartz-tourmaline-calcite rock. Geologic map. Precambrian age.

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


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