Limestone and dolomite with minor shale. Guadalupian in south, in part Leonardian to north.
Includes deposits of higher gradient tributaries bordering major stream valleys, alluvial veneers of the piedmont slope, and alluvial fans. May locally include uppermost Pliocene deposits.
Includes monzonitic to granitic plutons, stocks, laccoliths, and porphyritic dikes in deeply eroded magmatic centers; and andesitic, dacitic, or rhyolitic plugs and dikes near cauldrons or stratovolcanoes. In the Latir field, fine-grained rhyolitic dikes commonly cut coarse-grained granitic plutons. Includes alkaline laccoliths, plugs, and dikes in Colfax County. North-trending dikes near Capitan include some mafic diabase dikes.
Texturally and mineralogically mature, high-silica quartz sandstone.
Sandstones, siltstones, anhydrite, gypsum, halite, and dolomite.
Alluvium
Map unit includes Moenkopi Formation (Middle Triassic) at base in many areas; in eastern part of state the following five formations are mapped: TRr, TRb, TRt, TRg, and TRs.
Includes the predominantly andesitic to dacitic stratovolcano complex at Sierra Blanca (Oligocene to upper Eocene) and many smaller outliers.
Includes Cliff House Sandstone, Menefee Formation, and Point Lookout Sandstone.
Divided into Upper and Lower parts by Gallup Sandstone.
Flows south of Grants and west of Carrizozo are Holocene. Includes minor vent deposits.
Shelf facies forming broad south-southeast trending outcrop from Glorieta to Artesia area; includes Tansill, Yates, Seven Rivers, Queen and Grayburg Formations (Guadalupian). May locally include Moenkopi Formation (Triassic) at top.
Alluvial and eolian deposits, and petrocalcic soils of the southern High Plains. Locally includes Qoa.
San Andres Limestone and Glorieta Sandstone
Consists of Dakota Group, which includes Romeroville Sandstone (Cenomanian), Pajarito Shale, and Mesa Rica Sandstone (Albian); the underlying Tucumcari Shale (Albian) in Tucumcari area and Glencairn Formation (Albian) in Union County.
Eolian deposits.
In Sangre de Cristo Mountains may include Sandia, Madera, La Pasada, Alamitos, and Flechado Formations; elsewhere may include Bar-B, Nakaye, Red House, Oswaldo, and Syrena Formations.
Includes Baca, Galisteo, El Rito, Blanco Basin, Hart Mine, Love Ranch, Lobo, Sanders Canyon, Skunk Ranch, Timberlake, and Cub Mountain Formations.
Includes Camp Rice, Fort Hancock, Palomas, Sierra Ladrones, Arroyo Ojito, Ancha, Puye, and Alamosa Formations.
Basin fill of the Rio Grande rift. Locally represents upper Miocene formations of the middle Santa Fe Group in the northern Albuquerque Basin.
Red beds, arkosic at base, finer and more mature above; Wolfcampian; may include limestone beds of Pennsylvanian age (Virgilian) in Zuni Mountains. In Robledo Mountains the Abo may be considered a member of the Hueco Formation.
Shale, arkose, and limestone.
Moenkopi Formation
Mainly 1.45 - 1.35 Ga megacrystic granites, generally weakly foliated except locally at their margins.
Includes the Whitewater Arroyo Tongue of Mancos Shale and the Twowells Tongue of the Dakota.
Includes Lake Valley Limestone (Mississippian); Devonian rocks, undivided; El Paso Formation and Montoya Group or Formation (Ordovician); and Bliss Sandstone (Cambrian and Ordovician).
San Andres, Glorieta, and Yeso Formations, undivided
Includes scattered lacustrine, playa, and alluvial deposits of the Tahoka, Double Tanks, Tule, Blanco, Blackwater Draw, and Gatuna Formations, the latter of which may be Pliocene at base; outcrops, however, are basically of Quaternary deposits.