Usage:
No current usage.
(†Spring Creek Granite (CO) abandoned.)
Geologic age:
Mesoproterozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not stated. Occurs only on southwest half of Red Mountain, and on hill to south, on opposite side of Spring Creek, Cripple Creek district, eastern CO (Cross, 1895).
AAPG geologic province:
Southern Rocky Mountain region
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