Usage:
Grottos Granodiorite (CO*)
Geologic age:
Mesoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: along Roaring Fork River, at and below The Grottos, from which unit is named, on steep, south-facing slopes of Smuggler Mountain and northeast-facing slopes of New York Peak, Pitkin Co., CO (Fridrich and others, 1998).
AAPG geologic province:
Southern Rocky Mountain region*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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