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Geologic Unit: Hye

Usage:

Hye Granite (TX)


Geologic age:

Precambrian


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

Not stated. Origin of name not stated. Outcrops in area along Pedernales River at Blanco-Gillespie Co. line, about 22 mi from Fredericksburg, central TX (Barnes and others, 1947).


AAPG geologic province:

Llano uplift


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