Usage:
/Catalina quartz monzonite [informal] (AZ)
/Catalina granite [informal] (AZ)
Considered informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized. [Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Catalina Schist by Woodford (1924) in CA.]
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Oligocene, late
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Occurs north of Mount Lemmon, within Santa Catalina Mountains, Pima Co., AZ. Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from Santa Catalina Mountains (DuBois, 1959).
AAPG geologic province:
Basin-and-Range province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).