Usage:
/Palm Canyon Quartz Diorite (CA)
[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Palm Canyon Complex by Miller (1944) in same area.]
Geologic age:
Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Palm Canyon, southeastern San Jacinto Mountains, in secs. 25 and 26, 35 and 36, R. 4 E., T. 6 S., and in secs. 1and 2, 11 through 13, R. 4 E., T. 7 S., Idyllwild 15-min quadrangle, Riverside Co., CA (Brown, 1981).
AAPG geologic province:
Peninsular Ranges province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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