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Puerco beds
Puerco Pu*er"co, n. [Sp.] A hog. Puerco beds (Geol.), a name given to certain strata belonging to the earliest Eocene. They are developed in Northwestern New Mexico, along the Rio Puerco, and are characterized by their mammalian remains.

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- 1111/1475-4983.00185. Osborn and Earle (1895), "Fossil mammals of the Puerco beds." Collection of 1892. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 1-70, with...
- Interstate 40 (I-40), which parallels the BNSF Railway's Southern Transcon, the Puerco River, and historic U.S. Route 66, all crossing the park roughly east–west...
- formation exposed near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Gravel beds within the formation in the Rio Puerco valley west of Albuquerque have provided clues to the...
- valley of the Rio Puerco. The formation superficially resembles the underlying El Cobre Canyon Formation. However, the siltstone beds are more orange in...
- directions from the west. The lower beds are predominantly interbedded sandstone and mudstone while the upper beds are predominantly sandstone to conglomerate...
- gallons (360,000 m3) of acidic, radioactive tailings solution into the Puerco River through Pipeline Arroyo. An estimated 1.36 short tons (1.23 t) of...
- 05 million years (Ma), and a volcanic vent (Cerro Colorado) in the Rio Puerco valley with its base within the Navajo Draw has an Ar-Ar age of 7.1 ± 0...
- plateau region borders the east, southeast of the Painted Desert, where the Puerco River enters the desert, flowing southwest from New Mexico then meeting...
- Chester, her psychiatrist, and a Latin American revolutionary known as El Puerco ('The Pig'; his friends just call him "El") (Gregory Sierra); Billy Tate's...
- attempts to kill him and his family. He later becomes a general in El Puerco's revolutionary army after rescuing him and Jessica from being lost in the...