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Geologic Unit: Galiuro

Usage:

No current usage?
(†/Galiuro Limestone (AZ) considered abandoned? Uncertain if used by the AZ Geol. Survey. Not used by the USGS. Naco Limestone is used in the type area instead. See Naco.)

[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Galiuro Rhyolite by Blake (1902) in AZ. ]


Geologic age:

Pennsylvanian


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

At junction of the Gila and San Pedro Rivers at the foot of Saddle Mountain, Galiuro Mountains, AZ (Stoyanow, 1936).


AAPG geologic province:

Basin-and-Range 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 ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).