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| State | Texas |
|---|---|
| Name | Younger granitic intrusion |
| Geologic age | preCambrian-Proterozoic |
| Original map label | pCy |
| Comments | Oatman Creek Granite appears to be late differentiate of Town Mountain Granite Younger granitic intrusions include aplogranite bodies and aplite dikes, pegmatite dikes, quartz masses |
| Primary rock type | granite |
| Secondary rock type | aplite |
| Other rock types | pegmatite |
| Lithologic constituents | Major
Igneous > Hypabyssal > Felsic-hypabyssal > Hypabyssal-felsic-alkaline (Dike or sill)Sixmile Granite, uniform fine-grained, commonly gray, but variable color, quartz-plagioclase-microcline rock, occurs as irregular intrusive bodies penetrating metamorphic rocks and Town Mountain Granite Igneous > Hypabyssal > Felsic-hypabyssal > Hypabyssal-felsic-alkaline (Dike or sill)fine-grained, pink, mildly cataclastic, quartz-plagioclase-microclinerock, occurs in irregular bodies of about 1 mile in size and in elongate en echelon dikes or sills |
| Map references | Bureau of Economic Geology, 1992, Geologic Map of Texas: University of Texas at Austin, Virgil E. Barnes, project supervisor, Hartmann, B.M. and Scranton, D.F., cartography, scale 1:500,000 |
| Unit references | Bureau of Economic Geology, 1981, Llano sheet, Geologic Atlas of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, scale 1:250,000. |
| Geographic coverage | Blanco - Gillespie - Llano - Mason - San Saba |
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