Field guide to the overlooks of Fish Creek Canyon, Superstition Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona
dc.contributor.author | Ferguson, C.A. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-29T02:11:42Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-09-29T02:11:42Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ferguson, C.A., 2005, Field guide to the overlooks of Fish Creek Canyon, Superstition Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona. Arizona Geological Survey Open File Report, OFR-05-01, 16 p. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/629734 | |
dc.description | This report is intended to be both a teaching and field guide for a spectacularly exposed sequence of silicic volcanic rocks in the northern Superstition Mountains, south-central Arizona. The sequence spans the contact between the Goverment Well and Tule Canyon formations as exposed along Fish Creek Canyon just south of the Salt River. The area of interest has been mapped by graduate students at Arizona State University (Malone, 1972; Suneson, 1976; Isagholian, 1983) and as part ofthe Arizona Geological Survey's 1997 STATEMAP program (Gilbert and Ferguson, 1997). The rocks examined are in the upper part of the 20.5Ma- 18.6Ma Superstition Group (Figure 1) which represents ~650 km3 of intermediate to silicic lavas that were erupted prior to formation of the 350 km2 Superstition caldera. The caldera is the source of the 18.6Ma, ~800 km3 Apache Leap Tuff (Ferguson and Skotnicki, 1996; McIntosh and Ferguson, 1998; Ferguson and Trapp, 2001). The lack of structural complexity, remarkable exposure, general lack of alteration, and ease of access makes this one of the best areas in Arizona for examining silicic lava flows and associated pyroclastic rocks. (16 pages) | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | OFR-05-01 | |
dc.relation.url | https://library.azgs.arizona.edu/item/AOFR-1552429273344-66 | |
dc.rights | Arizona Geological Survey. All rights reserved. | |
dc.subject | Arizona Geological Survey Open File Reports | |
dc.subject | Arizona | |
dc.subject | Pinal County | |
dc.subject | Superstition Mountians | |
dc.subject | Fish Creek Canyon | |
dc.subject | igneous rock | |
dc.subject | pyroclastic rocks | |
dc.subject | silicic volcanic rocks | |
dc.subject | overlooks | |
dc.subject | field guide | |
dc.title | Field guide to the overlooks of Fish Creek Canyon, Superstition Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona | |
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refterms.dateFOA | 2018-09-29T02:11:42Z |