- Usage in publication:
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- "dikes of Calico Peak porphyry"
- "porphyry of Calico Peak and vicinity"
- Modifications:
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- Areal extent
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Paradox basin
Summary:
Plate 22, map of Rico Mountains. "dikes of Calico Peak porphyry." [Text heading is "porphyry of Calico Peak and vicinity."] Age is Tertiary.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 318).
- Usage in publication:
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- "dikes of Calico Peak porphyry"
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- Principal reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Porphyry
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Paradox basin
Summary:
[Credits Whitman Cross, A.C. Spencer, and F.L. Ransome.] "Dikes of Calico Peak porphyry" occur on north slope and elsewhere in vicinity of Calico Peak [about 4 miles northwest of Rico] and in a sheetlike body in Dakota sandstone at head of Priest Gulch. Is a monzonite porphyry characterized by large orthoclase crystals. "Calico Peak porphyry alunitized" (a porphyry changed by solfataric action into a mass consisting chiefly of alunite) forms cone of Calico Peak. Age is Tertiary.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 318).
- Usage in publication:
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- Calico Peak porphyry*
- Modifications:
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- Overview
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Paradox basin
Summary:
[Calico Peak porphyry adopted by the USGS.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 318).
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