Usage:
Blue Canyon Tuff of Datil Group (NM*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Oligocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: northwest side of Main Canyon near its junction with Blue Canyon, 7 mi north of Datil, 1.1 mi northeast of junction of Cibola National Forest road 14 and road into Blue Canyon, in NE/4 SE/4 sec. 1, T. 1 S., R. 10 W., Catron Co., NM (Osburn and Chapin, 1983).
AAPG geologic province:
Basin-and-Range province*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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