GEOLOGIC RECONNAISSANCE OF TAOS RANGE 



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northeast of Ben Hur Lake. No trace of the bedding of the original 

 sandstone was detected, perhaps due to the possible identity of the 

 original bedding and the sheeting. The attitude and character 

 of the quartzite strongly suggest this possibihty to the writer. 

 The color of the formation as a whole is yellow, but the southern 

 end of it becomes reddish and purplish gray. 



Southeast of Sacred Lake the very steeply dipping quartzite 

 overlies a very much folded and twisted, thinly laminated chlorite 

 schist. The foliation of the latter, as a whole, is parallel to that 

 of quartzite. What appears to be a continuation of the quartzite 



Ancient Schists and Gneisses 

 Chlorite Schist 



Pueblo Quartzite 



t\?01 Intrusive Granite, Pre-Camb. 

 [ ] Pennsylvanian Sediments 



' / I Rhyolite Dike, Post-Paleoz. 



Horizontal and vertical scale 



Fig. 2.- — Cross-section from Salazar Canyon to Pueblo Creek, along line A-B 

 on map. 



and schist is seen half a mile southwest of this locahty, just below 

 Larkspur Point. Here steeply tilted chlorite epidote schist forms 

 a cliff of conspicuous gray color. Strike and dip of the sheeting 

 are very similar to that of the quartzite. Southwest of Pueblo 

 Peak, adjacent to and north of the Pennsylvanian sediments, 

 steeply inchned quartz-schist forms sharp craggy outcrops and 

 cliffs. The formation flanks Pueblo Peak parallel to the fault line 

 for an unknown distance toward the west. 



Intrusive granites. — The distribution and composition of the 

 granites suggest a close genetic connection between the individual 

 areas. It is highly probable that all belong to one great bathoHth 



