Usage:
Inconsolable Quartz Monzodiorite (CA*)
Geologic age:
Early Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Inconsolable Range, east-central Sierra Nevada, near Bishop. Crops out in the Sierra Nevada divide from Middle Palisade to Mount Agassiz and extends northward in Inconsolable Range to latitude of Chocolate Peak. Main mass is elongate in northwesterly direction and has outcrop area of a little more than 12.5 mi [Lat. 37 deg. 08 min. N., Long. 118 deg. 32 min. W., Mount Goddard 15-min quadrangle, Inyo Co., CA]. Named from Inconsolable Range (Bateman, 1961).
AAPG geologic province:
Sierra Nevada province*
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