The Plio-Pleistocene Quemado Formation of west-central New Mexico
Abstract
The Plio-Pleistocene Quemado Formation (new name) consists of 29.5 m of volcaniclastic and siliciclastic sandstone and conglomerate at its type section in northwestern Catron County, New Mexico. The Quemado ranges in age from ~4 to <1 Ma, and consists of fluvial deposits that accumulated in several basin/paleovalley systems in upper reaches of tributaries to the ancestral Little Colorado River. The Quemado Formation is, at least in part, correlative with the upper part of the Bidahochi Formation.
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- Cather, Steven M.; McIntosh, William C., 1994, The Plio-Pleistocene Quemado Formation of west-central New Mexico, in: Mogollon Slope, west-central New Mexico, Chamberlin, Richard M.; Kues, Barry S.; Cather, Steven M.; Barker, James B.; McIntosh, William C., New Mexico Geological Society, Guidebook, 45th Field Conference, pp. 279-281. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-45.279