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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MISCELLANEOUS FIELD STUDIES MAP MF–2334 U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Version 1.0 Tsus 70 60 Tsum Upper siltstone (Pliocene)—Light-gray siltstone; well bedded; diatomaceous; poorly indurated. the Ziana horst, rather than as a fold whose geometry is more difficult to explain in a rifting environment. 60 3 x CORRELATION OF MAP AND SUBSURFACE UNITS 10 8 8 x x 13 Qvd xx MRGB-7-LM Localized deposits of lacustrine siltstone and minor claystone, probably deposited in oxbow Throws across the normal faults bounding the Ziana horst are unknown, but are probably at least several hun- 65 65 10 87 lakes and ephemeral springs, ponds, and marshes (cienaga). Most small deposits are included dred meters. The southern extent of the Ziana horst must be limited, because bedrock outcrops along Arroyo QTsug 20 43 50 Tslms EOLIAN ARROYO RIO VALLEY- GEOMORPHIC BEDROCK 13 69 74 55 70 67 67 QTsug DEPOSITS ALLUVIUM GRANDE FLOOR SURFACE DEPOSITS in unit Tsus, but deposits are mapped west of Picuda Peak and in southwestern part of Baranca are limited to upper Santa Fe Group rocks. We explained this pattern with the help of the aeromag- 67 8 QTsug 12 48 17 Tsus 58 Qvd ALLUVIUM DEPOSITS quadrangle to show fault relations. Thickness <15 m netic data, which shows prominent north-trending linear anomalies that are the extensions of the faults bound- 66 Tsmms 8 64 78 QTsug Tsus 84 Qvd 51 75 82 QTsu Santa Fe Group, upper part, undivided (lower Pleistocene(?) to upper Miocene)—Shown ing the horst, but also a prominent northeast-trending anomaly that must bring lowermost middle Santa Fe Qaly 76 on cross section only. Only includes units QTsug, Tsus, and Tsum. Thickness <60 m Group rocks up along a southeast-dipping normal fault. To the north, the Ziana horst becomes one of several 8 52 85 Qaly Qesy Qaly 10 Tsus Holocene Tsums Upper part of middle sandstone and siltstone (Miocene)—Reddish-brown to reddish-yellow, similar north-trending fault-bounded structures mapped by Manley (1978) in the Bernalillo NW quadrangle. 64 Qvd 75 47 Tslms fine- to medium-grained sandstone and silty sandstone, and grayish-red to reddish-brown Tsus Tsus Tsums 8 58 QUATERNARY FAULTS 10 siltstone and minor claystone; poorly indurated; sandstone contains uncommon, thin granule Qaly 8 Qeso/Qvd(s) 5 3 Numerous normal faults in the Loma Machete quadrangle offset upper Santa Fe Group rocks (QTsug and 14 60 68 Qeso and fine pebble conglomerate beds. Sandstone is thin bedded to massive, some crossbedding. 6 Qvd(s) Qvd 55 67 12 Mudstones are thin to thick, parallel bedded. Mostly deposited as fluvial overbank (flood plain) Tsus). Given the uncertainty in the age of these deposits, these faults may have undergone Quaternary Tsums 58 upper 65 58 52 Qvd(s) Pleistocene deposits by sluggish, southward- and southeastward-flowing streams. Apparently conformable movement (Machette and others, 1998; Personius and others, 1999). However, with a few exceptions, most A QTsug Ziana Horst Qvd with overlying unit Tsus and underlying unit Tsmms. Unit well exposed only in northern part of these faults do not offset younger deposits or geomorphic surfaces, and thus probably have not been active 8 70 4 Qvd(s) of quadrangle along Rincones de Zia. Probably correlative with upper part of Middle Red since the early Pleistocene. Examples of such possible Quaternary structures are the numerous faults near Qalo QTsug Qalo Qvd 3 Qvd member of Santa Fe Formation of Bryan and McCann (1937) and Kelley (1977), upper part Picuda Peak and Loma Barbon in the northern part of the quadrangle. Quaternary faulting is more clearly Tsus 70 QTsug 89 of Red member of Santa Fe Group of Spiegel (1961), upper and middle parts of lower unit of demonstrated on several faults in the southern part of the quadrangle, with perhaps the youngest movements 3 Tsums 8 QUATERNARY Cochiti Formation of Manley (1978), and lower part of proposed Loma Barbon Member of occurring on the East Paradise fault zone. About 5 km south in the Los Griegos quadrangle, 79 10 A' Qtas middle Qesy Qesy 66 6 Arroyo Ojito Formation of Connell and others (1999). Unit is highly faulted so thickness is thermoluminescence (TL) dating of sediments exposed in a fortuitous housing excavation cut into the East 5 Pleistocene 1 67 uncertain; however, unit is at least 282 m thick in Rio Rancho #15 water well , 5 km west of Paradise fault showed evidence of three surface-faulting events in the last roughly 200,000 years (Machette Qtag QTsug Tsus 58 6 QTsug QTsug 8 Loma Machete and others, 1998; Personius and others, 1999; Personius and Mahan, 2000). On 1967 vintage airphotos, the Tsus 2 6 Tsmms Middle part of middle sandstone and siltstone (Miocene)—Pale-brown to yellowish-brown, East Paradise fault zone is manifested in the Loma Machete quadrangle as aligned drainages and a single west- 6 Qvd fine- to medium-grained sandstone, and brown to yellowish-brown siltstone and claystone, facing, approximately 5-m-high scarp in valley-floor alluvium [Qvd(s)] just north of the Rio Rancho Golf Tsus x 6 x Qeso/Qvd(s) with minor yellowish-red siltstone and claystone; poorly indurated. Sandstone is medium Course. Unfortunately this scarp has been destroyed by subsequent development. 77 63 Rio Rancho 78 Qvd(s) bedded to massive, some crossbedding. Mudstones are thin to thick, parallel bedded. Mostly Several other faults show evidence of Quaternary movement in the southern part of the quadrangle. At #15 Qvd(s) 68 Santa Fe lower Tsus Qesy 10 deposited as fluvial overbank (flood plain) deposits by sluggish, southward- and southeastward- least three normal faults in the neighborhood of Star Heights offset upper Santa Fe Group rocks and younger Qaly Pacific #1 Pleistocene 89 80 4 8 flowing streams. Unit well exposed only in a narrow fault block in northern part of quadran- Quaternary sediments. These north- and northeast-trending faults include parts of the Star Heights fault of Tsums Tsus Qvd(s) Qvd gle along Rincones de Zia. Apparently conformable with overlying unit Tsums; unit is in fault Kelley (1977), but our mapping indicates that the Star Heights fault as originally mapped includes parts of at 2 Tslms QTla 68 ? contact with underlying unit Tslms, but apparently conformably overlies Tslms about 750 m least two separate faults, so we have abandoned this name. The faults in the vicinity of Star Heights have Qaly Qesy 6 4 8 67 north of map area in Bernalillo NW quadrangle (Manley, 1978). Probably correlative with offsets of a few tens of meters in upper Santa Fe Group (QTsug and Tsus) rocks, and offset the Llano de 2 16 QTsug Qeso 86 Ziana Horst Albuquerque (QTla) 15–20 m and valley-floor deposits [Qvd(s)] 5–10 m. Two faults that offset upper Santa Fe 11 Tsus lower part of Middle Red member of Santa Fe Formation of Bryan and McCann (1937) and 64 Qvd(s) 5 Kelley (1977), lower part of Red member of Santa Fe Group of Spiegel (1961), lowest part of Group sedimentary rocks on Loma Colorado de Abajo may have been active in the Quaternary. These faults 69 76 7 Tsum 5 Tsum lower unit of Cochiti Formation of Manley (1978), and upper sandy part of proposed Navajo have offsets of 5–15 m in strongly developed calcic soils that may be correlative with the Llano de 8 QTsu Pliocene 5 57 8 Draw Member of Arroyo Ojito Formation of Connell and others (1999). Unit is in fault Albuquerque. All of these Quaternary faults are important because they have the potential for producing rare, 3 2 7 Tsus contact with underlying unit Tslms in map area, so thickness is poorly known; however, unit large-magnitude earthquakes that could cause severe damage in the cities of Albuquerque and Rio Rancho. QTsug 77 63 Tsum 14 is >257 m thick in Rio Rancho #15 water well, 5 km west of Loma Machete With the exception of the East Paradise fault zone, none of these structures have been the subject of Tsus Tsus QTsug Qvd(s) Tsums Tslms Tslms earthquake hazards studies. 1 Qvd Lower part of middle sandstone and siltstone (Miocene)—Light-gray to very pale brown, 5 Rio Rancho fine- to coarse-grained sandstone, and brown and red siltstone and claystone; mostly weakly 9 Qaly Qalo Qaly REFERENCES CITED Tsus #18 indurated; sandstone is moderately to well sorted; lithic rich. Lower part consists primarily of Qesy Tsums Bachman, G.O., and Machette, M.N., 1977, Calcic soils and calcretes in the southwestern United States: 6 crossbedded eolian sandstone in large-scale (1–2 m thick) sets, with paleowind directions from Tsus Qaly west-northwest. Sandstone is weakly to strongly cemented by calcium carbonate, commonly U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77–794, 163 p. Qvd TERTIARY Tsmms into convoluted shapes and bedding. Discontinuous red siltstone and claystone beds 10–100 Bachman, G.O., and Mehnert, H.H., 1978, New K-Ar dates and the late Pliocene to Holocene geomorphic Tsus Santa Fe Group cm thick [intradune pond deposits(?)] are common in lower part. Upsection, unit fines and is history of the central Rio Grande region, New Mexico: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 89, p. 1 8 Miocene dominated by fluvial overbank (flood plain) deposits—upper part is mostly parallel, thin- to 283–292. Qvd(s) 2 Tslms Birkeland, P.W., 1984, Soils and geomorphology: New York, Oxford University Press, 372 p. Qaly thick-bedded, very pale brown to brown sandstone and siltstone and minor claystone, with minor light-gray to very pale brown crossbedded eolian sandstone.

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