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Geologic Unit: Horseshoe Mountain

Usage:

Horseshoe Mountain Porphyritic Leuco Quartz Monzonite of Horseshoe Basin Group (WA)


Geologic age:

Early Cretaceous


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Not stated. Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from exposures in Horseshoe Mountain, along 49th parallel in Okanogan Range of northern WA (Hibbard, 1965).


AAPG geologic province:

Northern Cascade Range-Okanagan province


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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