| State | New Mexico |
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| Name | Lower Santa Fe Group |
| Geologic age | Upper Miocene to uppermost Oligocene |
| Lithologic constituents | Major
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital (Bed)no lith description on map - description from GEOLEX - mostly gravel and sand from mostly volcanic tuffs.
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mixed-clastic > Conglomerate-sandstone (Bed, Tuffaceous)no lith description on map - description from GEOLEX
Unconsolidated > Fine-detrital (Bed)no lith description on map - description from GEOLEX - silt and clay/mud from mostly volcanic tuffs.
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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 |
| NGMDB product | |
| Counties | Bernalillo - Catron - Colfax - Dona Ana - Luna - Rio Arriba - Sandoval - Santa Fe - Sierra - Socorro - Taos - Valencia |