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  • Usage in publication:
    • Tuerto gravel
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Gravel
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • San Juan basin
    • Estancia basin
Publication:

Stearns, C.E., 1953, Tertiary geology of the Galisteo-Tongue area, New Mexico: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 64, no. 4, p. 459-508., April 1953


Summary:

Pg. 476, 477, pl. 1. Tuerto gravel. Thickness 5 to more than 150 (300?) feet. Interbedded with basalt flows tentatively correlated with Cuerbio basalt. Younger than Santa Fe formation. [Age is Quaternary.]
[Notable exposures in Galisteo-Tongue area, Sandoval and Santa Fe Cos., north-central NM.]

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