Usage:
/Sherman Granite of Berthoud Plutonic Suite (CO*)
/Sherman Granite (WY*)
[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to †Sherman Diorite of Hague and others (1904) in WY.]
Geologic age:
Mesoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Exposed in large batholith extending from northern Front Range, CO, well into WY. Mapped over large area at and around Sherman, Albany Co., WY (Blackwelder, 1908).
AAPG geologic province:
Southern Rocky Mountain region*
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