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Geologic Unit: Timber Peak

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Timber Peak Rhyolite (NM) abandoned.)


Geologic age:

Cenozoic


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Timber Peak in central Magdalena Mountains, approx. 11 mi south of Magdalena, in sec. 9, T. 4 S., R. 3 W., unsurveyed, South Baldy 7.5-min quadrangle, Socorro Co., central NM (Osburn and Chapin, 1983).


AAPG geologic province:

Orogrande basin


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

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