Usage:
Squaw Gulch Granite (AZ*)
[NOTE: The Squaw Gulch Granite is in the process of being formally renamed Santa Rita Gulch Granite (RESERVED) in accordance with the Department of the Interior's Secretarial Order 3404, discontinuing use of derogatory term squaw.]
Geologic age:
Jurassic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: along the middle reaches of Squaw Gulch [now Santa Rita Gulch], east of Salero Mine, Santa Rita Mountains, Mount Wrightson quadrangle, Santa Cruz Co., AZ (Drewes, 1968).
[The geographic feature Squaw Gulch, from which the geologic name was taken (Drewes, 1968), was renamed Santa Rita Gulch (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, September 2022, USGS GNIS FeatureID 34772) in accordance with the Department of the Interior's Secretarial Order 3404.]
AAPG geologic province:
Basin-and-Range 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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