Usage:
Palisade Crest Intrusive Suite (CA*)
Subunits:
(ascending): Tinemaha Granodiorite, granodiorite of McMurry Meadows (informal).
Geologic age:
Jurassic, Middle*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: exposures along Palisade Crest, from east escarpment of Sierra Nevada south of Big Pine Creek to Red Mountain Creek [approx. Lat. 37 deg. 04 min. N., Long. 118 deg. 29 min. W., Inyo Co., CA] (Bateman, 1992).
AAPG geologic province:
Sierra Nevada province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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