Geologic map of Buehman Canyon is based on the published map by:

Anne Bykerk-Kauffman

M. S. Dissertation University of Arizona

 

Units depicted in geologic map as described by Bykerk-Kauffman:

 

Xp                   pinal schist

Yp                    pioneer shale

Yd                    dripping spring quartzite (Yds)

Ys & Yd            diabase sills and dripping spring quartzite undifferentiated

Ys                    diabase sills (Ydb)

Cb                   bolsa quartzite

Ca                   abrigo

Dm                  martin

Me1                escabrosa   -weakly

Me2                escabrosa   -brecciated

Ph1                 horquilla and lower earp   -weakly

Ph2                 horquilla and lower earp   -moderately

Ph3                 horquilla and lower earp   -strongly

Ph4                 horquilla and lower earp   -very strongly

PPe2              upper earp   -moderately

PPe3              upper earp   -strongly

Kb1                 bisbee    -weakly

Kb2                 bisbee    -moderately

Kb3                 bisbee    -strongly

Kb4                 bisbee    -very strongly

Kl                     leatherwood quartz diorite (TKl)

Ti                     intermediate to mafic dikes and plugs (74 crimson)

Tq                    quiburis

Qa                   alluvium (yellow)

 

Ysc quartzite clasts are flattened and elongated parallel to foliation and lineation.

 

Ybc clasts are not deformed and the quartzite is weakly or not foliated.

 

Cb 76m

Unfoliated except for rare shear zones several mm thick in the extreme south part of area.

 

Ca 136m

Upper sandy dolomite                                 peppersauce

Quartzite                                             southern belle

Interbedded sandstone and shale            three C

 

Dm 80m

Thin-bedded dolomite and sandstone.  Weakly or not foliated.

 

Me 170m

140m pure gray limestone with subordinate dolomite beds.

30m very dark gray coarse-grained dolomite.

Limestone unfoliated in north part of area, well foliated and lineated in south part.

Dolomites fractured but not foliated even when interbedded with intensely foliated limestones.