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  • Usage in publication:
    • Paiute Monument Quartz Monzonite*
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Ross, D.C., 1969, Descriptive petrography of three large granitic bodies in the Inyo Mountains, California: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 601, 47 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:250,000)


Summary:

Pg. 26-33. Paiute Monument Quartz Monzonite. Massive, coarse-grained, gray quartz monzonite with abundant pink feldspar crystals; weathers to boulders and monoliths. Age is Middle Jurassic. (Paiute Monument Quartz Monzonite adopted by the USGS.)
Type locality: Paiute Monument, monolith on crest of Inyo Mountains, 16 km east-northeast of Independence, Inyo Co., central CA.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1520, p. 231); Changes in stratigraphic nomenclature, 1969 (USGS Bull. 1324-A, p. A11).


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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