Jaramillo Creek

Jaramillo Creek is a 10 mile long stream in New Mexico with headwaters in the Jemez Mountains.[1] Jaramillo is a tributary of the East Fork Jemez which is then a tributary of the Jemez River, a tributary of the Rio Grande. The creek is located in a graben in the Pleistocene age Valles Caldera.[2] The Jaramillo normal event (1.06-0.9 Mya) of the Matumaya Reversed Epoch was named for rocks selected and aged at the type locality near the creek.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Preliminary Geologic Map of the Valle San Antonio Quadrangle, Sandoval and Rio Arriba Counties, New Mexico".
  2. ↑ "Valles Caldera". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2010-08-15.
  3. ↑ Glen, William (1982). The Road to Jaramillo: Critical Years of the Revolution in Earth Sciences. Stanford University Press.


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