Usage:
McAfee Adamellite (CA)
(See also McAfee Creek Granite of Hanson and others, 1987.)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all informal; all in CA: Aiken facies, Central facies, Garden facies.
Geologic age:
Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not stated. The McAfee, including all 3 facies, underlies about 61 sq mi, in Mount Barcroft 15-min quadrangle and extending beyond the north, east, and south borders of the quadrangle, Inyo batholith. Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from McAfee Creek, Mount Barcroft 15-min quadrangle, CA and NV (Emerson, 1966).
AAPG geologic province:
Sierra Nevada province
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