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*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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