Usage:
Taft Granite (CA*)
Geologic age:
Early Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Not designated.] Named from Taft Point in Yosemite National Park [Lat. 37 deg. 42 min. 46 sec. N., Long. 119 deg. 56 min. 22 sec. W., Yosemite 15-min quadrangle, Mariposa Co., CA] (Calkins, 1930).
AAPG geologic province:
Sierra Nevada 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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