Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †Kiawa Mountain Formation (NM*) reallocated to Ortega Quartzite, Burned Mountain Metarhyolite, and Moppin Metavolcanics. See Ortega, Burned Mountain, and Moppin.)
Geologic age:
late Paleoproterozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: Kiawa [Kiowa] Mountain, in secs. 3 to 5, 8 to 10, T. 27 N., R. [8] E., Las Tablas 7.5-min quadrangle, Rio Arriba Co., [Carson National Forest area], central northern NM (Barker, 1970).
AAPG geologic province:
Southern Rocky Mountain region
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