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Music Mountain Formation, Peach Springs Wash, Arizona

Music Mountain Formation, Peach Springs Wash, Arizona

Music Mountain Formation (Tmm) capped by 1.2 m. of Milkweed member of Buck and Doe Conglomerate (Tbd) in lower Peach Springs Wash. (Location: NE1/4 Section 34, T26N, R11W).

The top of the Music Mountain Formation exhibits a deeply weathered, darker red interval, which contains obvious soil horizon features, such as strongly developed ped structures, and is assumed to reflect tropical or paratropical conditions.

Young, R.A., 2011, Brief Cenozoic Geologic History of the Peach Springs Quadrangle and the Hualapai Plateau, Mohave County, Arizona (Hualapai Indian Reservation): Arizona Geological Survey Contributed Report CR-11-O, 30 p. and 3 map plates https://library.azgs.arizona.edu/item/AGCR-1552427443903-738

Photographer: R.A. Young

Photo Date: 2011

Photo Location Accuracy: Approximately Located