Usage:
No current usage.
(†Evans Granite (CO) replaced with Boulder Creek Granite. See Boulder Creek.)
Geologic age:
Paleoproterozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not stated. Occupies small area in western part of Evergreen [Denver Mountain Parks] quadrangle Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from Mount Evans, Clear Creek Co., CO (Underhill, 1906).
AAPG geologic province:
Southern Rocky Mountain region
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