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 Camp Rice, Fort Hancock, Palomas, Sierra Ladrones, Arroyo Ojito, Ancha, Puye, and Alamosa Formations.
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 Hayner Ranch, Rincon Valley, Popotosa, Cochiti, Tesuque, Chamita, Abiquiu, Zia, and other formations.
Includes minor vent deposits and small shield volcanoes. Flows are commonly interbedded in the Santa Fe and Gila Groups.
Mesoproterozoic and Paleoproterozoic plutonic rocks, undivided
Alluvium
Pelitic schist, quartz-muscovite schist, immature quartzite, and subordinate amphibolite; includes parts of Vadito Group in northern New Mexico, immature metasedimentary rocks of central New Mexico, and Bullard Peak Series mixed supracrustal rocks in Burro Mountains.
Variably foliated granites and granitic gneisses; 1.71 - 1.65 Ga in northern New Mexico; 1.66 - 1.65 Ga in central and southern New Mexico.
Divided into Upper and Lower parts by Gallup Sandstone.
Limestone and dolomite with minor shale. Guadalupian in south, in part Leonardian to north.
Includes Baca, Galisteo, El Rito, Blanco Basin, Hart Mine, Love Ranch, Lobo, Sanders Canyon, Skunk Ranch, Timberlake, and Cub Mountain Formations.
Includes Concha, Scherrer, Colina, Epitaph, and Earp Formations (Permian) and Horquilla Limestone (Permian to Pennsylvanian).
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.
Includes large blocks of older andesite in caldera-collapse breccia facies locally exposed on resurgent dome of the Valles caldera.
Includes Cliff House Sandstone, Menefee Formation, and Point Lookout Sandstone.
Mostly syneruptive volcaniclastic sedimentary aprons. Lower units dominantly derived from volcanic highlands of andesitic to dacitic composition. Locally includes minor lavas and tuffs. Younger units (above and intertongued with Mogollon Group tuffs, Turp) include upper Bell Top Formation, South Crosby Peak Formation, and upper Spears Group units near Quemado. Older units (below and intertongued with Datil Group tuffs, Tlrp) include Palm Park, lower Bell Top, Espinaso and Pueblo Creek Formatios and lower Spears Group formations such as Rincon Windmill, Chavez Canyon, and Dog Springs.
In Manzano Mountains includes Wild Cow Formation and Los Moyos Limestone; in Lucero Mesa includes Red Tanks, Atrasado, Gray Mesa Formations; in Sacramento Mountains includes the non-Madera Holder, Beeman and Gobbler Formations. May include strata lumped as Magdalena Group in a few areas.
Texturally and mineralogically mature, high-silica quartz sandstone.
Sandstones, siltstones, anhydrite, gypsum, halite, and dolomite.
Upper Jurassic nonmarine rocks.
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.
Redonda Formation
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.
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.
Permian rocks, undivided
Includes Oak Canyon, Cubero, and Paguate Tongues; includes Clay Mesa Tongue of Mancos Shale.
Consists of Entrada Sandstone, Todilto and Summerville Formations, Bluff Sandstone, and locally Zuni Sandstone (or only Acoma Tongue of Zuni).
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.
Granodiorite, diorite, and gabbro complexes; 1.78-1.71 Ga; interpreted to be intrusive part of juvenile volcanic arc basement.
Landslide deposits on western flanks of Socorro Mountains not shown for clarity.
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.
Arroyo Penasco Group in Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Sierra Nacimiento, San Pedro Mountain, and Sandia Mountains; Lake Valley Limestone in south-central New Mexico.
Continental red beds.
Includes 1.70 Ga Ortega Quartzite and equivalents in northern New Mexico and 1.67 Ga quartzites in central New Mexico.
Includes associated alluvial and eolian deposits of major lake basins.
In Organ, Franklin, and San Andres Mountains.
In southwest includes the basalt-bearing Broken Jug Formation.
Includes 1.70 Ga Vadito Group in northern New Mexico and 1.68 Ga Sevilleta Metarhyolite in central New Mexico.
Beartooth and Sarten Formations are in part Albian. Includes Virden Formation in northern Hidalgo County, Ringbone Formation in Hidalgo, Luna and Grant Counties, Mancos Shale in Silver City area.