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  • Usage in publication:
    • Cochise Peak quartz monzonite*
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Quartz monzonite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Pedregosa basin
Publication:

Gilluly, James, 1956, General geology of central Cochise County, Arizona, with sections on age and correlation by A.R. Palmer, J.S. Williams, and J.B. Reeside, Jr.: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 281, 169 p.


Summary:

Pg. 9, 63-65, pl. 5. Cochise Peak quartz monzonite. Generally light-greenish-gray, weathering to rather dark-grayish-brown colors. Generally spangled with conspicuous flesh-colored crystals of microcline as much as 4 cm long. Abundance of crystals ranges greatly. In places, rock grades into mylonites. Most contacts are faults and thus give little direct clue to original intrusive relations. Older than Stronghold granite with which it is in contact in three areas of Pearce quadrangle. Age is Triassic or Jurassic. Report includes geologic map.
Crops out in belt extending from northern side of Cochise Peak, in T. 18 S., R. 23 E., south-southeastward for nearly 3 mi, to the divide at Middle Pass, Dragoon Mountains, central Cochise Co., southeastern AZ. Belt ranges in width from about 1,000 feet to nearly 0.5 mi. Numerous other small bodies and blocks recognized in area but are too small to be mapped.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 862).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Cochise Peak Quartz Monzonite
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Pedregosa basin
Publication:

Keith, S.B., and Barrett, L.F., 1976, Tectonics of the central Dragoon Mountains [Arizona]; a new look, IN Wilt, J.C., and Jenney, J.P., eds., Tectonic digest: Arizona Geological Society Digest, v. 10, p. 179-181.


Summary:

Previously reported intrusive relations with Bolsa Quartzite [Cambrian] are viewed as equivocal. Rather, a basal quartzite-pebble conglomerate between the Bolsa Quartzite and underlying [Cochise Peak] granite provide strong evidence for a Precambrian age assignment.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Cochise Peak Quartz Monzonite
  • Modifications:
    • Not used
Publication:

Drewes, Harald, 1980, Tectonic map of southeast Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map, I-1109, 1 sheet, scale 1:125,000


Summary:

Not mentioned by name but outcropping rocks named Cochise Peak Quartz Monzonite by Gilluly (1956) of Triassic or Jurassic age shown as granitoid rocks of Precambrian Y age in Pedregosa basin.

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


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