Usage:
Shaver Intrusive Suite (CA*)
Subunits:
(ascending) --all in CA*: Dinkey Creek Granodiorite; granodiorite of McKinley Grove; granodiorite of the Pick and Shovel mine area; granite of Ordinance Creek; granite of Shuteye Peak; granites of Dinkey Dome, Short Hair Creek, Sheepthief Creek, lower Bear Creek, Mushroom Rock, and north of Snow Corral Meadow; and possible additional units of granodiorite of Whisky Ridge and Stevenson Creek.
Geologic age:
Early Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures around Shaver Lake-Dinkey Dome area, east of Fine Gold Intrusive Suite [approx. Lat. 37 deg. to 37 deg. 30 min. N., Long. 118 deg. 45 min. to 119 deg. 30 min. W.], central Sierra Nevada, CA (Bateman, 1992).
AAPG geologic province:
Sierra Nevada province*
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