Rhyolite Canyon Tuff (AZ*-recognized locally in Cochise Co.)
Oligocene*
Best exposed in Rhyolite Canyon from which it is named, Chiricahua National Monument, Cochise Co., southeastern AZ (Enlows, 1951, 1955; see also Drewes, 1982).
Type area: Chiricahua National Monument, Cochise Co., southeastern AZ (Pallister and others, 1994).
Pedregosa basin*
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