Usage:
Mount Givens Granodiorite of John Muir Intrusive Suite (CA*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named for occurrence around Mount Givens in Huntington Lake area (Sherlock and Hamilton, 1958).
[Reference locality: exposures in vicinity of Mount Givens, Lat. 37 deg. 16 min. 45 sec. N., Long. 119 deg. 03 min. 17 sec. W., Kaiser Peak 15-min quadrangle (Mt. Givens 7.5-min quadrangle), Fresno Co., CA (P.C. Bateman, oral commun., 1985)].
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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