Usage:
Hunter Mountain Quartz Monzonite (CA*)
Geologic age:
Jurassic, Early*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Hunter Mountain in Panamint Range. Exposed continuously from contact at least 8 mi east of quadrangle, across Hunter Mountain and for 17 mi along Nelson Range. Exposure is at least 10 mi broad across Hunter Mountain and southward to Darwin quadrangle, eastern CA (McAllister, 1956).
AAPG geologic province:
Sierra Nevada province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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