Usage:
Mount Scott Granite of /Wichita Granite Group (OK-recognized locally in eastern and western Wichita igneous province, Wichita Mountains area)
[Wichita Granite Group preempted by Wichita [Group] by Cummins (1890) in TX; a group name combines a geographic name with the term "group," and no lithic designation is included (ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021).]
Geologic age:
Middle Cambrian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Mount Scott, in Comanche Co., OK, which is composed of this granite. Forms half of outcrop area in eastern and central parts of Wichita Mountains (Merritt, 1965).
AAPG geologic province:
Palo Duro basin
South Oklahoma folded belt
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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