Usage:
Quarry Peak Rhyolite Complex (NM)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Forms prominent peak west of Steins and north of Southern Pacific RR and State Highway 14. For convenience of this report, the peak above the abandoned quarry is called Quarry Peak from which sequence of rhyolitic rocks takes its name. The complex also crops out west and northwest of Quarry Peak and north of Steins, Hidalgo Co., NM (Gillerman, 1958).
AAPG geologic province:
Pedregosa basin
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