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  • Usage in publication:
    • Tungstonia Granite
  • Modifications:
    • Named
    • Geochronologic dating
  • 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 Tungstonia Granite. Consists of allotriomorphic to hypidiomorphic granite forming castle-like monoliths. Border facies consists of protoclastic mylonite and leucocratic aplitic granite; core facies consists of muscovite-biotite granite with muscovite books. Age is Paleocene based on isotopic (K-Ar, Rb-Sr) dating.
Type locality not stated by authors. Named from Tungstonia Canyon and abandoned mine, Kern Mountains, White Pine Co., NV.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1520, p. 316); GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).


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