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Geologic Unit: Chiricahua

Usage:

No current usage.
(†/Chiricahua Rhyolite (AZ) considered abandoned? Uncertain if used by the AZ Geol. Survey. Not used by the USGS.)

[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Chiricahua Limestone by Stoyanow (1936) in AZ.]


Geologic age:

Tertiary(?)


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

[Type locality and/or origin of name unknown. Name applied to rocks in Pedragosa Mountains, Cochise Co., southeastern AZ in PhD dissert. by R.C. Epis.]


AAPG geologic province:

Pedregosa basin


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

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

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