";s:4:"text";s:3224:" Elevation Change from Base: 4,463 feet Vegetation at Highest Elevations: pine forests The Galiuro Mountains are a block-fault range consisting of two high parallel ridges separated by two valleys, one sloping to the north and the other to the south. The maps, reports, and other information and content on this website are provided as a public service for informational purposes only. Users are responsible for verification of all facts and information to their own satisfaction. The University makes no warranties or representations of any kind, and specifically disclaims all warranties including the warranty of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Accuracy is not guaranteed, and the information contained or linked on this website should not be relied on except as general information. Galiuro Mountains *Cox, L.J., 1995, Geologic map of the southern Galiuro Mountains in Pinal, Graham, and Cochise Counties, Arizona: USGS … Geology Figure 1 shows the general geology of the Copper Creek area. The University makes no warranties or representations of any kind, and specifically disclaims all warranties including the warranty of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Geology, landscape development, adventure and foreign travel, philosophical and scientific musings, photography and earthly explorations. Others occur in many other parts of the American Southwest. ARIZONA GEOLOGY REFERENCES: G . A Guide to the Geology of Sabino Canyon and the Catalina Highway.
Basic Information. Galiuro Mountains. Accuracy is not guaranteed, and the information contained or linked on this website should not be relied on except as general information. The geology of Arizona began to form in the Precambrian.Igneous and metamorphic crystalline basement rock may have been much older, but was overwritten during the Yavapai and Mazatzal orogenies in the Proterozoic.The Grenville orogeny to the east caused Arizona to fill with sediments, shedding into a shallow sea. Geologic Map of Catalina Core Complex and San Pedro Trough.
The Galiuro Mountains are a north-northwest-trending, elongate range a long the eastern edge of the San Pedro Valley and are formed mostly of gently east-dipping Tertiary volcanic rocks. Neogene erosion along the southwestern flank of the Galiuro Mountains in the Basin and Range province of southeastern Arizona has exposed multiple strands of a mid-Tertiary low-angle normal-fault system that offsets Oligocene-Miocene and older strata. Users are responsible for verification of all facts and information to their own satisfaction. Limestone formed in the sea was metamorphosed by mafic intrusions. Galiuro Mountains. The maps, reports, and other information and content on this website are provided as a public service for informational purposes only. Some of these features are common throughout this southern part of the Santa Catalina Mountains.
In the near middle-ground, gently tilted Miocene-age interbedded sandstones and conglomerates exposed near Hookers Hot Springs in the Galiuro Mountains of southeastern Arizona. Friday, February 17, 2012. High Point: Bassett Peak, 7,663 feet. Basic Information.