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  • Usage in publication:
    • Skinner Canyon Granite
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Granite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Best, M.G., Armstrong, R.L., Graustein, W.C., Embree, G.F., and Ahlborn, R.C., 1974, Mica granites of the Kern Mountains pluton, eastern White Pine County, Nevada; remobilized basement of the Cordilleran miogeosyncline?: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 85, no. 8, p. 1277-1286.


Summary:

Unit is named the Skinner Canyon Granite. Consists of graphic or porphyritic to equigranular biotite granite. Border facies consists of leucocratic granite. Intrudes the Uvada Granite. Age is 45 to 30 Ma [Eocene and (or) Oligocene].
Type locality: exposed northwest of Skinner (Hoodoo) Canyon and constitutes smaller southeastern lobe of Kern Mountains pluton, White Pine Co., NV.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1520, p. 282); GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).


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