Usage:
Sands Granite (CA*)
Geologic age:
Jurassic(?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality not stated by author. Confined to several townships in southwest corner of Ivanpah quadrangle, south, north, and east of Sands on Union Pacific RR, and to belt about 5 mi long near Mountain Pass on Highway 91, San Bernardino Co., southern CA (Hewett, 1956).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).