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Santa Fe Group, undivided

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Basin fill of the Rio Grande rift. Locally represents upper Miocene formations of the middle Santa Fe Group in the northern Albuquerque Basin.
State New Mexico
Name Santa Fe Group, undivided
Geologic age Middle Pleistocene to uppermost Oligocene
Lithologic constituents
Major
Unconsolidated > Fine-detritalno lith description on map - description from GEOLEX - Basin fill of the Rio Grande rift.
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mixed-clastic (Bed)no lith description on map - description from GEOLEX - mostly sandstones and conglomerates.
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detritalno lith description on map - description from GEOLEX - Basin fill of the Rio Grande rift.
Minor
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone (Bed)no lith description on map - description from GEOLEX - Basin fill of the Rio Grande rift.
Igneous > Volcanic (Flow, Pyroclastic-tuff)no lith description on map - description from GEOLEX - Volcanic units of limited areal extent interbedded with formations are included in Santa Fe (types vary from felsic to mafic).
Unconsolidated > Marlno lith description on map - description from GEOLEX - Basin fill of the Rio Grande rift.
References

Green, G.N., Jones, G.E., and Anderson, O.J., 1997, The Digital Geologic Map of New Mexico in ARC/INFO Format: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-0052, 9 p., scale 1:500,000.

https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr9752

USGS Geologic Names lexicon found at: http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/

https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/search
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Counties Bernalillo - Colfax - Dona Ana - Lincoln - Rio Arriba - Sandoval - Sierra - Socorro - Taos - Valencia