Usage:
Cintura Formation of Bisbee Group (AZ*,NM*)
Geologic age:
Early Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Cintura Hill, [in T. 22 S., R. 24 E.], near north edge of Bisbee 15-min quadrangle, Bisbee region, Cochise Co., southeastern AZ (Ransome, 1904).
Principal reference section (composite): in SE/4 sec. 12, T. 23 S., R. 24 E., and in NW/4 sec. 7, T. 23 S., R. 25 E., Mule Mountains, Cochise Co., southeastern AZ (Hayes, 1970).
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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