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Geologic Units: Uvada
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Uvada 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 Uvada Granite. Consists of dark-gray, cataclastic, fine-grained, quartz-perthite-plagioclase-biotite granite with microcline-perthite phenocrysts. Is intruded by the Skinner Canyon Granite. Age is Tertiary.
Type area: south of Uvada, Kern Mountains pluton, White Pine Co., NV.

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