- Usage in publication:
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- Trail Creek Granite
- Modifications:
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- Overview
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Southern Rocky Mountain region
Summary:
Intended to be informal but wording is formal. Name is preoccupied and should be replaced. Is an element of "Virginia Dale ring-dike complex" in Sherman batholith in northern Front Range. Listed with granitic rocks and gabbro of circa 1,400 m.y. (Precambrian Y) age group.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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