UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

PROFESSIONAL PAPER 603
PLATE 2

COLORADO PLATEAUS PROVINCE

SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCES,
AND THE CHAMA BASIN, COLORADO PLATEAUS PROVINCE,

Quartzite, schist, slaty granite, rhyolite, and andesite

PERIOD EPOCH
(EXCLUDING THE CHA BASIN) DATIL SECTION AREA SOUTH OF ALBUQUERQUE | AREA NORTH OF ALBUQUERQUE
Unnamed gravels and alluvium,
Recent Unnamed gravels and alluvium Tuerto Gravel of Stearns (1953),
Quaternary and Unnamed gravels and alluvium and Puye Conglomerate
Pleistocene 2 2 2 2
:, > ‘Unnamed gravels and alluvium
; , : Santa Fe Group (0-+5,000) Santa Fe Group (0-+10,000);
Pliocene (Beats Benaetae (09D) en maimed Se includes the Ancha, Abiquiu,
farts) apd lacuattie ea and Tesuque Formations;
? | 1? 2 2 im voleanic flows and tuffs in
Popotosa upper part
Formation
(3,000-5,000)
Miocene Datil Formation (0-2,000) ¢ i THAITNNTE TT
‘Unnamed voleanie| 4
flows and tuffs |  Cieneguilla Limburgite
es of Stearns (1953)
i (0-600)
? 1 ?
= Oligocene | | 2 |
TM Espinaso Volcanics |
Ea
Bs
Galisteo Formation | Sui
Eocene Baca Formation (0-1,500) Baca Formation (80-1,000) (900-4,000) EI
San Jose Formation (0-8,000)
2
Nacimiento Formation i
Paleocene 600-1000) os Animas Formation
‘Ojo Alamo
Sandstone
(0-400)
Kirtland Shale
(0-1,200)
Pictured Cliffs Sandstone (70-400)
Lewis Shale (0-2,000)
Cliff House Sandstone (100- r
); ineludes La Ventana | 0.34
Late Py ‘Tongue in northeastern ee 3h
Cretaceous | 8 Menefee Formation (0-200) | 5 a" 2
oO | Point Lookout Sandstone (250- | @ 9's
Cretaceous £ | “God; includes Hosta Tongue |ZS%°| 2 ¢ | point Lookout Sandstone |  Mesaverde Group undivided toonypordal Sra arn Viaea!
3 in southern part gh (0-700) (300-1,000)
ei Grevasse Canyon Formation 3 Crevasse Canyon
i 8 (500-750) 53 § Formation (+750)
Gallup Sandstone (0-250) eo eee
Maneos Shale (300-2,000) ‘Mancos Shale (75-400) Mancos Shale (0-200) Mancos Shale (-+2,000)
Dakota Sandstone (0-200) Dakota Sandstone (0-100) Dakota Sandstone (+100) Dakota Sandstone (0-200)
Early(?) 2 2 2 2 2
OL TT TT if TL
UNCONFORMITY UNCONFORM CONFORMITY YNCONFORMITY
Brushy Basin Member (0-600); includes Brushy Basin Member
g Jackpile sandstone of economic usage § (£250); ineludes un-
4 in Laguna district and Poison Canyon | yorrison Formation (0-400); 3 ae ee eee
ae sandstone of economic usage Soil mie thera gartionly: aasve cin = unit at top
E Ambrosia Lake district menclature as in San Juan  |Westwater Canyon Member
e | © | Westwater Canyon Member (0-800) | .- Basin ae (75-150)
i i Recapture Member (0-500) é 5 t | Ree et0)
8 g a
Late |fs| = Salt Wash Member (0-200); 2 2 § =
. Jurassic 5a northwestern part gE $a
Jonas Ba i ie
lB F Bluff Sandstone (0-350) PH as
4 Fi 4 A =
Ky 3 2 a eg ee mene) Nliarer partial Gave Hatael |e) e cn
qe Todilto Limestone (0-100) Group; same units in| a2
|_| # northern part as in San|___| pe
Entrada Sandstone (0-300) Jeeps Baae, a
Middle | ]
and Early
Jurassic Lid tome
. i istone (0-300); innamed siltstone
cn Cann crony| Winger 0-46); | Wien Sin (0-0 eT
SE 2E 24 ifi
I 2 , . Petrified Forest Member
82 Owl Rock Member (0-500) | 33 i g| RSE | Petrified Forest | Chinle Formation £ as used by Stewart (1960)
a8 oga £| 22° Member as used (0-1,000); west of Hy 2 (600-1,000)
Late SO en Se Pe by Stewart | RioGrande, Few | Dockum | £&
Triassic 8s erates Recess Juember Sae| 82s (1960) (0-1,250) | exposures; nomen- | Formation | © 7
28 including Sonsela Sand- | eg@2| 255 clature same as | (0-500); |g & |” Poleo Sandstone Lentil
ar # - stone Bed (1,000-1,500) Bsg<| £3 3 = * == softtiinkn' sideval camtat | AS (60-150)
assic £ £34 7 red mem ‘ r ;
ae Lower red member (50-400) |S ax°| 5 Pi (0-300); north- San Juan Basin | Rio Grande | © Salitral Shale Tongue
S22 Bete | She western part t (50-125)
ees £53 eee i
F Ba Shinarump Member (0-100) | 2" 2 au = cee ae cums | Ne
yNepnrcaMrny SFE UNcONFORMITY. ?
war TOL TATTOO eet CTL
and Early Moenkopi(?) Formation (0-200); Moenkopi(?) Formation (0-200);
Triassic southwestern part northern part
i Bernal Formation (0-50); east
| of Rio Grande
San Andres Limest " ‘i San Andres
aston, Cutler (0-125);southern part _| San Andres Limestone (400-450) | San Andres Limestone (50-400) Limestone (0-50)
fember and | Formation |Glorieta Sandstone (100-200);| i ; Cutler Glorieta Sand-
Permian ower part | (51,000); autheennart Glorieta Sandstone (+200) Glorieta Sandstone (25-200) eee ‘stone (0-100)
si Formation | northern |"Yeso Formation (600-750); 7 Sami 700) (600-1,000);
(£150); i pr ‘Yeso Formation (1,000-1,300) ‘Yeso Formation (600-1,700) ae Yeso Formation
Abo Formation (300-900) latitude ‘Abo Formation
Abo Formation (2-750); 3 36° N. (200-700); south
Rico Formation (900- ple ae As : Abo Kormation (S900) Bursum Formation of latitude
1,200); subsurface only (0-250) 36° N.
in northwestern San
Juan County Madera Limestone
Madera Limestone; locally, Madera Limestone Madera Limestone | (0-775); fanks of | Unnamed sandstone
Hermosa Formation | around southern margins; (£1,700) Mepainens (100-1,500) ues bea oe Ete =
— (2,000-1,350); sub- | Subsurface extent unknown = Group ‘Mountains pectniare 4
3 Coe surface only in San Tee His Antis Coane?
g Juan County Sandia Formation
5 Sandia Formation Sandia Formation 2
5 ‘Molas Formation (60-175); subsurface only (400) (100-350) |
£ in northwestern San Juan County
&
Arroyo Penasco
= |Formation (0-150)
Missis-
sippian
Devonian Waddle
and Early
Devonian
Silurian
Ordovician
(0-100);
County
Cambrian(?)
UNCONFORMITY UNCONFORMIT) UNCONFORMITY UNCONFORMITY
Precambrian rocks undivided; in
a oa eastern Rio Arriba County the
Precambrian Papeampeteth rocks atl Hopewell Series and overlying

Ortega Quartzite of Just (1987)
are included

GENERALIZED CORRELATION CHART OF THE PRINCIPAL STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS
IN NORTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO. THICKNESS IS SHOWN IN FEET

329-381 O - 69 Plate #2 (In pocket)