Usage:
/Box Canyon Rhyolite Tuff (NM)
[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Box Canyon Member of Mutual Quartzite of Williams (1953) in UT.]
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Oligocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures in upper 4 mi of Box Canyon, Dwyer quadrangle, [Grant Co.], southwestern NM. Largest outcrop on southeast slope of Mimbres Peak (Elston, 1957).
AAPG geologic province:
Basin-and-Range province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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