Includes minor vent deposits and small shield volcanoes. Flows are commonly interbedded in the Santa Fe and Gila Groups.
Includes Concha, Scherrer, Colina, Epitaph, and Earp Formations (Permian) and Horquilla Limestone (Permian to Pennsylvanian).
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.
Alluvium
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.
Mostly andesitic to dacitic strato volcanoes. Includes rhyolite lavas and tuffs in the Jemez Mountains, Volcanoes in Jemez Mountains and eastern Colfax County are upper Miocene. Mount Taylor and composite volcanoes in the Taos Plateau volcanic field are Pliocene.
Includes Hayner Ranch, Rincon Valley, Popotosa, Cochiti, Tesuque, Chamita, Abiquiu, Zia, and other formations.
Includes the 1.78-1.72 Ga Moppin (Tusas Mountains), Gold Hill (Taos Range), and Pecos (Sangre de Cristo Mountains) complexes; interpreted to be supracrustal part of juvenile volcanic arc basement.
Includes La Jara Peak Basaltic Andesite, Uvas Basaltic Andesite, basaltic andesites of Poverty Creek and Twin Peaks, Squirrel Springs Canyon Andesite, Razorback Basalt, Bear Springs Basalt, flows of Gila Flat, Salt Creek Formation, Middle Mountain Formation, and the Alum Mountain Group. Pre-Amalia-Tuff lavas in the Questa caldera are dominantly silicic andesites and dacites; elsewhere silicic lavas are a minor component of Tual.
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.
Granodiorite, diorite, and gabbro complexes; 1.78-1.71 Ga; interpreted to be intrusive part of juvenile volcanic arc basement.
Eolian deposits.
Includes Camp Rice, Fort Hancock, Palomas, Sierra Ladrones, Arroyo Ojito, Ancha, Puye, and Alamosa Formations.
Rhyolite and dacite flows with associated minor tuffs. Commonly interbedded with Santa Fe or Gila Group sedimentary units. Dacitic lavas in northern Jemez Mountains are Pliocene.
Includes 1.70 Ga Ortega Quartzite and equivalents in northern New Mexico and 1.67 Ga quartzites in central New Mexico.
Basin fill of the Rio Grande rift. Locally represents upper Miocene formations of the middle Santa Fe Group in the northern Albuquerque Basin.
Includes Taylor Creek Rhyolite, Fanney Rhyolite, rhyolite of Rocky Canyon, rhyolite of Hardy Ridge, and upper rhyolite members of the Luis Lopez and Sawmill Canyon formations.
Landslide deposits on western flanks of Socorro Mountains not shown for clarity.
Regional ash-flow tuffs include the La Jencia, Vick's Peak, Lemitar, South Canyon, Bloodgood Canyon, Shelley Peak, Davis Canyon, Park, Rhyolite Canyon, Apache Springs, and Amalia Tuffs; the tuffs of Horseshoe Canyon, Diamond Creek, Garcia Camp, Caronita Canyon, Turkey Springs, and Little Mineral Creek; and the Jordan Canyon Formation. Includes some locally erupted lavas and tuffs within thick intra-caldera units; includes minor volcaniclastic sedimentary units between thin outflow sheets.
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.
Includes Rinconada Formation in northern New Mexico and Blue Springs Schist in Manzano Mountains.
Includes Bidahochi Formation (Pliocene to upper Miocene), Picuris Formation (Miocene to Oligocene), Las Feveras Formation (Pliocene), lower Gila Group units in the southwest, and unnamed Pliocene unit in northwestern Socorro County.
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.
Glacial deposits; till and outwash.
Mostly a combination of basaltic andesite lavas and rhyolitic ash-flow tuffs of the Mogollon Group (Tuau+Tual+Turp). Includes locally erupted lavas and tuffs in some calderas.
Includes Carson Conglomerate (Dane and Bachman, 1965) in Tusas Mountains-San Luis Basin area.
Includes Bearwallow Mountain Andesite and basaltic andesite of Mangas Mountain; also near vent basaltic lavas and shallow intrusions in the Chuska Mountains.
Includes minor vent deposits. Flows are commonly interbedded in the Santa Fe and Gila Groups.
Includes 1.70 Ga Vadito Group in northern New Mexico and 1.68 Ga Sevilleta Metarhyolite in central New Mexico.
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.
Includes Baca, Galisteo, El Rito, Blanco Basin, Hart Mine, Love Ranch, Lobo, Sanders Canyon, Skunk Ranch, Timberlake, and Cub Mountain Formations.
Paleozoic rocks, undivided
Arroyo Penasco Group in Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Sierra Nacimiento, San Pedro Mountain, and Sandia Mountains; Lake Valley Limestone in south-central New Mexico.
Includes basalts of Hinsdale Fm in San Juan Mountains - Servilleta Fm in San Luis Valley and many other occurrences
Proximal conglomerates and sandstones in western Raton Basin; generally lacking coal beds. Cretaceous beds mostly restricted to subsurface.
Mainly 1.45 - 1.35 Ga megacrystic granites, generally weakly foliated except locally at their margins.
Includes Rubio Peak Formation, Orejon Andesite, andesite of Dry Leggett Canyon, andesite of Telephone Canyon, and other units in southwestern, central, and northern New Mexico. Locally includes minor mafic lavas. Ancient landslide blocks of Mader Limestone, as much as one mile long, occur within Rubio Peak lavas in the central Black Range, west of Winston.
Includes many long basaltic andesite dikes of Oligocene age near Pie Town, Acoma, Riley, Chupadera, Truth or Consequences, Roswell, Raton, and Dulce; and several elongate or shoestring-like sills of basalt or basaltic andesite. Also includes basaltic necks of Pliocene age that dot the landscape northeast of Mount Taylor. Where dikes extend into Quaternary alluvium the contact is an unconformity.
Texturally and mineralogically mature, high-silica quartz sandstone.
Includes Broadway and Louviers Alluviums
Pierre Shale and Niobrara Formation
Siltstone, sandstone, and conglomerate
Regional ash-flow tuffs include Hell's Mesa, Kneeling Nun, Caballo Blanco, Datil Well, Leyba Well, Rock House Canyon, Blue Canyon, Sugarlump, Oak Creek, Bluff Creek, Gillespie, Box Canyon, Cooney and Chiquito Peak Tuffs; the tuffs of Steins Mountain, Black Bill Canyon, Woodhaul Canyon, and Farr Ranch; tuffs of the Organ cauldron; and lower tuffs in the Bell Top Formation. Includes some locally erupted lavas and tuffs within thick intra-caldera units; includes minor volcaniclastic sedimentary units and lavas between thin outflow sheets.
In Organ, Franklin, and San Andres Mountains.
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 several named units
Mesoproterozoic and Paleoproterozoic plutonic rocks, undivided
Includes minor vent deposits.
Includes Silver Plume, Sherman, Cripple Creek, St. Kevin, Vernal Mesa, Curecanti, Eolus, and Trimble Granites or Quartz Monzonites; also, San Isabel Granite of Boyer (1962) and unnamed granitic rocks
In southwest includes the basalt-bearing Broken Jug Formation.
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.
Vermejo Formation and Trinidad Sandstone
Locally includes Graneros Shale.
Quartzite, conglomerate, and interlayered mica schist
Locally contains minor hornblende gneiss, calc-silicate rock, quartzite, and marble. Derived principally from sedimentary rocks