- Usage in publication:
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- Ojo Caliente Sandstone Member
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Sand
- Sandstone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- San Juan basin
Summary:
Pg. 67-70. Ojo Caliente Sandstone Member of Tesuque Formation of Santa Fe Group. Easily mappable and useful for correlating widely separated exposures. Consists of poorly consolidated, cross-bedded, pink to white quartz sand. Maximum thickness 450 feet. Overlies and interfingers with Pojoaque and Chama-El Rito Members of Tesuque Formation; unconformably underlies Chamita Formation of Santa Fe Group. Age is early Pliocene (Clarendonian) [middle to late Miocene].
Type locality: triangular area bounded on the east by Ojo Caliente River; on the southwest by Chama River; and on the west by El Rito Creek, Rio Arriba Co., north-central NM. Named from the Ojo Caliente River.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1520, p. 226); GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).
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