Geology and Minerals

Hondo Group

The Hondo Group is a group of geologic formations that crops out in most of the Precambrian-cored uplifts of northern New Mexico. Detrital zircon geochronology gives a maximum age for the lower Hondo Group of 1765 to 1704 million years (Mya), corresponding to the Statherian period.

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See also

• ▸Escalante Petrified Forest State Park
• ▸French ship Inflexible (1752)
• ▸Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

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