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.