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.
Alluvium
Eolian deposits.
Includes Hayner Ranch, Rincon Valley, Popotosa, Cochiti, Tesuque, Chamita, Abiquiu, Zia, and other formations.
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.
Sandstones, siltstones, anhydrite, gypsum, halite, and dolomite.
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.
Flows south of Grants and west of Carrizozo are Holocene. Includes minor vent deposits.
Includes minor vent deposits and small shield volcanoes. Flows are commonly interbedded in the Santa Fe and Gila Groups.
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.
Landslide deposits on western flanks of Socorro Mountains not shown for clarity.
Permian rocks, undivided
Shale, arkose, and limestone.
Limestone and dolomite with minor shale. Guadalupian in south, in part Leonardian to north.
Includes some pedogenic carbonate south of Sierra Ladrones.
Mainly 1.45 - 1.35 Ga megacrystic granites, generally weakly foliated except locally at their margins.
Basin fill of the Rio Grande rift. Locally represents upper Miocene formations of the middle Santa Fe Group in the northern Albuquerque Basin.
Includes 1.70 Ga Vadito Group in northern New Mexico and 1.68 Ga Sevilleta Metarhyolite in central New Mexico.
Includes 1.70 Ga Ortega Quartzite and equivalents in northern New Mexico and 1.67 Ga quartzites in central New Mexico.
San Andres Limestone and Glorieta Sandstone
Includes Rinconada Formation in northern New Mexico and Blue Springs Schist in Manzano Mountains.
Mancos Shale, lower part
Includes Cliff House Sandstone, Menefee Formation, and Point Lookout Sandstone.
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.
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 southwest includes the basalt-bearing Broken Jug Formation.
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 Whitewater Arroyo Tongue of Mancos Shale and the Twowells Tongue of the Dakota.
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.
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.
Consists of Entrada Sandstone, Todilto and Summerville Formations, Bluff Sandstone, and locally Zuni Sandstone (or only Acoma Tongue of Zuni).
Includes minor vent deposits.
Texturally and mineralogically mature, high-silica quartz sandstone.
In Organ, Franklin, and San Andres Mountains.
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.
Includes Oak Canyon, Cubero, and Paguate Tongues; includes Clay Mesa Tongue of Mancos Shale.
Includes minor vent deposits. Flows are commonly interbedded in the Santa Fe and Gila Groups.
Continental red beds.
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.
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.