Usage:
St. Cloud Granite of Stearns Granitic Complex (MN)
Geologic age:
Paleoproterozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named for the fact that it occurs in vicinity of St. Cloud, Stearns Co., central MN (Woyski, 1949).
Exposures in abandoned quarries in SE/4 sec. 19 and SW/4 sec. 20, T. 124 N., R. 28 W., Stearns Co., MN (Morey, 1978).
AAPG geologic province:
Lake Superior region
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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