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Geologic Unit: Blue Mountain

Usage:

Blue Mountain volcanics [informal] (AZ)
Blue Mountain basalt [informal] (AZ)

Considered informal until formally published. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.


Geologic age:

late Tertiary (middle Miocene)


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Notable exposures at Blue Mountain, Coconino Co., northwestern AZ (Blissenbach, 1952).


AAPG geologic province:

Plateau sedimentary province


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

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