Geologic Map of the Northeastern Vulture Mountains and Vicinity, Central Arizona
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1987Keywords
Arizona Geological Survey Open File ReportsTertiary
cretaceous
Proterozoic
Basin and Range
Big Horn Mountains
Hieroglyphic Mountains
Wickenburg Mountains
Central Arizona
Northeastern Vulture Mountainsmiddle Tertiary volcanic rockCretaceous graniteProterozoic crystalline rocksmapGeologyQuaternaryVulture MountainsHassayampa RiverWickenburgMaricopa Countyamphibolitedioriteschistgraniterhyolitesbasaltspyroclastic rocksdacitic intrusivemafic dikesfelsic dikesdebris flowsFanglomeratebedrockalluviumgranitoidcrystalline rocks
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Grubensky, M.J., Stimac, J.A., Reynolds, S.J. and Richard, S.M., 1987, Geologic Map of the Northeastern Vulture Mountains and Vicinity, Central Arizona. Arizona Geological Survey Open File Report, OFR-87-10, 1 map sheet, map scale 1:24,000, 9 p.Publisher
Arizona Geological Survey (Tucson, AZ)Description
This report presents 1:24,000-scale geologic mapping of the eastern Vulture Mountains and vicinity. This mapping, along with concurrent mapping of the Wickenburg Mountains and western Hieroglyphic Mountains (Stimac and others, 1987). was completed between January and April 1987 and was jointly funded by the u.s. Geological Survey and Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology as part of the cost-sharing Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program (COGEOMAP). These areas were mapped because they were previously unmapped in detail, and were suspected to contain a highly faulted and potentially mineralized assemblage of Proterozoic crystalline rocks, Cretaceous granite, and middle Tertiary volcanic and sedimentary rocks. The Vulture Mountains represent an important link between previously studied middle Tertiary rocks and structures in the Big Horn Mountains (Capps and others, 1985; Stimac and others, 1987) and central Vulture Mountains (Rehrig and others, 1980) to the southwest and Hieroglyphic Mountains to the east (Capps and others, 1986). Together, the geologic studies in these mountain ranges provide a transect from the highly distended Basin and Range Province to -the edge of the Transition Zone.Additional Links
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OFR-87-10Rights
Arizona Geological Survey. All rights reserved.Collection Information
Documents in the AZGS Document Repository collection are made available by the Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS) and the University Libraries at the University of Arizona. For more information about items in this collection, please contact azgs-info@email.arizona.edu.North Bounding Coordinate
34South Bounding Coordinate
32.8269West Bounding Coordinate
-112.875East Bounding Coordinate
-112.65Collections
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