Usage:
Peralta Tuff Member of Bearhead Rhyolite of Keres Group (NM*)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (late Miocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from typical exposures in Peralta Canyon near its junction with Colle Canyon [in area of Canada de Cochiti Grant-Santa Fe National Forest bdry., Santo Domingo Pueblo 15-min quadrangle, Sandoval Co., north-central NM] (Bailey and others, 1969).
AAPG geologic province:
San Juan basin*
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