- Usage in publication:
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- Fargo Canyon diorite
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Diorite
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Salton basin
Summary:
Pg. 12, 44, 45, 59-60. Fargo Canyon diorite. Massive to moderately foliated. Cut by granite and pegmatitic granite dikes which are offshoots of White Tank and San Jacinto batholiths. Probably a correlative of Bradley granodiorite (new). In Little San Bernardino Mountains, the Fargo Canyon cuts Chuckwalla complex (new). Age is Late Jurassic.
Named from exposures in Fargo Canyon, Little San Bernardino Mountains, northeast of Indio, Riverside Co., southern CA.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1322).
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