Usage:
Cathedral Peak Granodiorite of Tuolumne Intrusive Suite (CA*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from fact it composes Cathedral Peak and adjoining parts of Cathedral Range in Yosemite National Park, CA (Calkins, 1930).
AAPG geologic province:
Sierra Nevada province*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).