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Geologic units containing peraluminous granite

Earth material > Plutonic rock > Granitoid > Granite
Peraluminous granite
A granite with aluminum oxide > sodium oxide + potassium oxide + calcium oxide; typical accessories include: muscovite, biotite, corundum, topaz, garnet
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California - Idaho - Nevada
California
Cenozoic (Tertiary) granitic rocks? (Skidoo Pluton) (Early to Late Cretaceous)
Cenozoic (Tertiary) granitic rocks--quartz monzonite, quartz latite, and minor monzonite, granodiorite, and granite; found in the Kingston, Panamint, Amargosa, and Greenwater Ranges in southeastern California(?)
Idaho
Felsic augen gneiss after porphyritic granite; Middle Proterozoic; southern Belt province (Middle Proterozoic)
Augen gneiss, amphibolite and other metamorphosed igneous rocks; possibly Precambrian.
Granodiorite and muscovitic monzogranite; Oligocene Almo pluton; south-central Idaho, Albion Range metamorphic core complexIdaho (Oligocene)
Oligocene granodiorite to muscovite pegmatite, pegmatitic granite, and mylonitized granitic injection gneiss
Intrusive rocks: mostly Late Cretaceous granodioritic to granitic plutons of the Idaho batholithic assemblage, but including some Eocene intrusions; northern Idaho and Atlanta batholith (Cretaceous to Eocene)
Cretaceous plutons; probably includes unmapped older and younger crystalline bodies.
Peraluminous monzogranite, granodiorite, pegmatite, aplite, and migmatite; mostly Cretaceous intrusions of the Kaniksu batholithic assemblage, but with minor Eocene intrusions, undivided; northern Idaho (Cretaceous to Eocene)
Cretaceous plutons; felsic; as granite or quartz monzonite; probably includes unmapped older and younger crystalline bodies.
Nevada
Granitic rocks (Jurassic)
GRANITIC ROCKS-Mostly quartz monzonite and granodiorite
Granitic rocks (Cretaceous)
GRANITIC ROCKS-Mostly quartz monzonite and granodiorite
Granitic rocks, central and eastern Nevada (Jurassic to Miocene)
GRANITIC ROCKS, CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEVADA-Mostly quartz monzonite and granodiorite. Inconclusively dated or not dated radiometrically
Intrusive rocks (Late Cretaceous to Middle Miocene)
INTRUSIVE ROCKS-Aphanitic, porphyritic, and coarsely granular rocks ranging in composition from diorite to granite. Clark County

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