Usage:
Socorro Peak Rhyolite of Santa Fe Group (NM)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (Miocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: approx. 3 mi west and southwest of Socorro, in secs. 5, 8, 16, 17, 21, and 28, T. 3 S., R. 1 W., Socorro Co., central NM (Osburn and Chapin, 1983).
AAPG geologic province:
Orogrande basin
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