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Peach Spring Tuff

Peach Spring Tuff

Excellent exposure of the Miocene Peach Spring Tuff in contact with a sandstone and capped by a thick petrocalcic (hardpan) breccia unit. The Peach Spring Tuff accompanied the formation of the Silver Creek Caldera about 18.8 Ma.

For more, see AZGS's Charles Ferguson's 29-page field trip guide, "The Peach Spring Tuff, its source caldera, and implications for structural geology of the Colorado River Extensional Corridor". https://library.azgs.arizona.edu/item/PPPP-1552429152767-206

Photographer: Joseph Cook

Photo Date: circa 2014