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  • Usage in publication:
    • Hye granite
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • [Granite]
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Llano uplift
Publication:

Barnes, V.E., Dawson, R.F., and Parkinson, G.A., 1947, Building stones of central Texas: University of Texas-Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Publication, no. 4246, 198 p., (incl. geologic map)


Summary:

Pg. 49, 50 (fig. 3). Mapped as Hye granite. Crops out as mass of weathered boulders and is part of old _monadnock of Precambrian peneplain which is surrounded by Cambrian sediments up to base of Wilberns formation. Age is Precambrian.
Type locality not stated. Derivation of name not stated. Outcrops in area along Pedernales River at Blanco-Gillespie Co. line, about 22 mi from Fredericksburg, central TX.

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