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Geologic Unit: Tungsten Hills

Usage:

Tungsten Hills Granite of Scheelite Intrusive Suite (CA*)


Geologic age:

Jurassic, Late*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Hill [just west of Langley Meadow] 2 mi N. 20 deg. E. of Grouse Mountain in southwestern Tungsten Hills [Lat. 37 deg. 30 min. N., Long. 118 deg. 34 min. W., Mount Tom 15-min quadrangle, Inyo Co., CA. Named from Tungsten Hills] (Bateman, 1961).


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.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).