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  • Usage in publication:
    • Wall Lake Latite
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Basin-and-Range province
Publication:

Elston, W.E., 1968, Terminology and distribution of ash-flows of the Mogollon-Silver City-Lordsburg region, New Mexico, IN Titley, S.R., ed., Southern Arizona guidebook III: Arizona Geological Society Guidebook, p. 231-240.


Summary:

Pg. 234, 238. Wall Lake Latite. Overlies Deadwood Gulch Rhyolite; underlies Bearwallow Mountain Formation. Age is Miocene.
Type locality not stated. Named from Wall Lake south of [Beaverhead ranger station, Gila National Forest, in sec. 10, T. 11 S., R. 12 W., Wall Lake 7.5-min quadrangle, Catron Co.], Mogollon Plateau, central western NM.
[Misprint (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 1520, p. 327): Wall Lake is in Catron Co., not Grant Co.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1520, p. 327).


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