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  • Usage in publication:
    • Diana Plutonic Suite
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
    • Geochronologic dating
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Adirondack uplift
Publication:

Rankin, D.W. (editor), Chiarenzelli, J.R., Drake, A.A., Jr., Goldsmith, Richard, Hall, L.M., Hinze, W.J., Isachsen, Y.W., Lidiak, E.G., McLelland, James, Mosher, Sharon, Ratcliffe, N.M., Secor, D.T., Jr., and Whitney, P.R., 1993, Proterozoic rocks east and southeast of the Grenville Front, IN Reed, J.C., Jr., and others, eds., Precambrian; conterminous U.S.: Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, The Decade of North American Geology (DNAG), v. C-2, p. 335-461.


Summary:

Revised from Diana Complex to Diana Plutonic Suite because it consists of plutonic rocks. Age is Middle Proterozoic. Table 1 cites U-Pb zircon age of 1155 +/-4 Ma (from Grant and others, 1986, GSA Abstracts with Program, v. 18, p. 620). [Revision is in section by J. McLelland and others within Chapter 5.]

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


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