- Usage in publication:
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- Rowe Wash Alluvium
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Silt
- Sand
- Gravel
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Basin-and-Range province
Summary:
Named for Rowe Wash. Type locality at channel of Rowe Wash 0.5 mi northeast of Schoolhouse Rd, Cave Creek quad, northern Maricopa Co., central AZ. Occurs as thin veneer of sediments found in washes of northwestern and north-central Carefree basin. Consists of light-gray to dark-gray unconsolidated, moderately to (locally) well sorted, moderately to well-bedded modern channel deposit of silt, sand, and gravel; contains subrounded to rounded clasts (up to 3 feet in diameter) which are 68% meta-argillite--phyllite. Total thickness ranges from 0 to 10 feet, locally up to 20 feet. Unconformably overlies Precambrian meta-argillite--phyllite complex, Miocene basalt, Miocene White Eagle Mine Formation (new), and late Miocene and early Pliocene Galloway, Naked Girl Canyon, and Grapevine Members of Carefree Formation (all new). Cuts Pleistocene Schoolhouse Glacis Alluvium (new). Includes geologic map and cross section, and stratigraphic nomenclature table.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).
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