State | New Mexico |
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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.
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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 |