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  • Usage in publication:
    • Phillips Lake Granodiorite
  • Modifications:
    • First used
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Okanogan province

Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Phillips Lake Granodiorite*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Granodiorite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Okanogan province
Publication:

Miller, F.K., and Clark, L.D., 1975, Geology of the Chewelah-Loon Lake area, Stevens and Spokane Counties, Washington, with a section on potassium-argon ages of the plutonic rocks by Joan C. Engels: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 806, 74 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:62,500)


Summary:

Unit is named the Phillips Lake Granodiorite. Consists of granodiorite. Unconformably overlies the Wallace Formation, Ravelli Group, and Prichard Formation; unconformably underlies Quaternary glacial, alluvial, and talus deposits. Age is Cretaceous based on radiometric (K-Ar) dating. (B1520)

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


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