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Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Burnside Lake adamellite
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Quartz monzonite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Sierra Nevada province
Publication:

Parker, R.B., 1961, Petrology and structural geometry of pre-granitic rocks in the Sierra Nevada, Alpine County, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 72, no. 12, p. 1789-1806.


Summary:

Shown in geologic sketch map of western half of Markleeville 15-min quadrangle, Alpine Co., CA, in area around Burnside Lake. [Age not stated.]

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Burnside Lake Adamellite
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Sierra Nevada province
Publication:

Koenig, J.B., 1963, Geologic map of California; Walker Lake sheet: California Division of Mines and Geology, scale 1:250,000


Summary:

Mapped with other granite and adamellite units as Jurassic and Cretaceous age. Name credited to Parker (1959, unpub. PhD thesis).

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Burnside Lake Adamellite*
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Sierra Nevada province
Publication:

John, D.A., Armin, R.A., Moore, W.J., and Dohrenwend, J.C., 1981, Geologic map of the Freel and Dardanelles Further Planning Area, Alpine and El Dorado Counties, California: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map, MF-1322-A, 1 sheet, scale 1:62,500


Summary:

Shown on map of Freel and Dardanelles Further Planning Area, Alpine and El Dorado Counties, CA. Consists of light-pinkish-gray porphyritic biotite granite. Intrudes Echo Lake Granodiorite. Age given as Late Cretaceous.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Burnside Lake Adamellite*
  • Modifications:
    • Geochronologic dating
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Sierra Nevada province
Publication:

Robinson, A.C., and Kistler, R.W., 1986, Maps showing isotopic dating in the Walker Lake 1 degree x 2 degrees quadrangle, California and Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map, MF-1382-N, 1 sheet, 49 p., scale 1:125,000


Summary:

K-Ar determination on biotite from Burnside Lake Adamellite yielded 86.5 +/-0.5 Ma. Specimen collected at 38 deg 45' 28"N, 119 deg 58' 06"W; location shown on map. [Based on U.S. Geologic Time Chart, 1986, age is Late Cretaceous]

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).


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