Usage:
Mount Lafayette Granite Porphyry of White Mountain Igneous Suite (NH*)
Originally called Lafayette Granite Porphyry.
Geologic age:
Early Jurassic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: extends the length of Franconia Ridge trail from Mount Lafayette to Little Haystack, Grafton Co., Franconia 15-min quadrangle, northwestern NH (Billings and Williams, 1935).
AAPG geologic province:
New England province*
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