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Revision as of 20:41, 11 May 2020
| Glorieta Formation | |
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| Stratigraphic range: Permian | |
 Glorieta Mesa, capped with white Glorieta Formation over reddish Yeso Group. | |
| Type | Formation |
| Underlies | San Andreas Formation |
| Overlies | Yeso Formation |
| Thickness | 81 m (maximum) |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Sandstone |
| Location | |
| Region | New Mexico |
| Country | United States |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Glorieta Pass |
| Named by | Charles Rollin Keyes (1915) |
 Outcrop map of Glorieta Formation in New Mexico. | |
The Glorieta Formation is a geologic formation in New Mexico. It is exposed in most of the flanking uplifts of the Rio Grande Rift[1] and extends in the subsurface to west Texas.[2] It is a massive white cliff-forming sandstone, fine to medium grained, that weathers to reddish brown. First named in 1915,[3] it was long considered either the uppermost member of the Yeso Formation or the lowermost member of the San Andreas Formation but was promoted to independent formation status in 1943.[1] It is particularly prominent in Glorieta Pass but extends west to the Jemez Mountains (where it pinches out in the central Nacimiento Mountains) and south to the Socorro area.[1][4]
The Glorieta Formation is of Kungurian age and is likely a shallow marine equivalent of the Coconino Sandstone of Arizona, from which it was separated by the Defiance uplift.[5] It is regionally uniform and shows cross stratification suggesting subaqueous deposition, except for local coastal eolian deposition.[6]
References
- ^ a b c NEEDHAM, C. E.; BATES, R. L. (1 November 1943). "Permian type sections in central New Mexico". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 54 (11): 1653–1668. doi:10.1130/GSAB-54-1653.
- ^ Sakuraf, Shinichi; Loucks, Robert G.; Gardner, John S. (1995). "Nmr Core Analysis Of Lower San Andres/Glorieta/Upper Clear Fork (Permian) Carbonates: Central Basin Platform, West Texas". SPWLA Annual Logging Symposium. 36. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- ^ Keyes, C.R. (1915). "Foundation of exact geologic correlation". Iowa Academy of Science Proceedings. 22: 249–267.
- ^ Various. "Geologic Unit: Glorieta". National Geologic Map Database. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
- ^ Baars, D.L. (1961). "Permian Blanket Sandstones of Colorado Plateau". AAPG Special Publication Series. 22: 179–207. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- ^ Baars, D.L. (1974). "Permian rocks of north-central New Mexico" (PDF). New Mexico Geological Society Annual Fall Field Conference Guidebook Series. pp. 167–169. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
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