Usage:
Dog Wash gneiss [informal] (CA*)
Considered informal until formally published. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Paleoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
West side of Twentynine Palms Mountain along upper Dog Wash, in sec. 19 (unsurveyed), T. 1 S., R. 10 E., Valley Mountain 15-min quadrangle, and Twentynine Palms 7.5-min quadrangle, San Bernardino Co., CA (Howard and others, in press).
AAPG geologic province:
Mojave basin*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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