Glenwoody Formation | |
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Stratigraphic range: | |
Type | Formation |
Unit of | Vadito Group |
Underlies | Hondo Group |
Overlies | lower Vadito Group |
Thickness | 300 m (980 ft) |
Lithology | |
Primary | Quartz–muscovite schist |
Other | Quartzite |
Location | |
Coordinates | 36°15′57″N 105°47′44″W / 36.2659°N 105.7956°W |
Region | Picuris Mountains, New Mexico |
Country | United States |
Type section | |
Named for | Glenwoody mining camp |
Named by | Bauer and Williams |
Year defined | 1989 |
The Glenwoody Formation is a geological formation that is exposed in the cliffs southeast of the Rio Grande Gorge near the town of Pilar and in a few other locations in the Picuris Mountains.[1] Its minimum age from detrital zircon geochronology is 1.693 Mya, corresponding to the Statherian period.