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Granite Mountain (Arizona)

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that is less than 8 mm (0.31 in) in size. This granite grades laterally into a fine grained, equigranular leucogranite with less than two percent biotite that is less than 2 mm (0.079 in) in size. The Mint Wash Granodiorite is almost everywhere undeformed. The porphyritic granite
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was named the Mint Wash Granodiorite by DeWitt and others for exposures along Mint Wash east of Granite Mountain. In composition, it is an alkali-calcic granodiorite to granite.
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These sedimentary, metasedimentary, and metavolcanic rocks were deposited, deformed, and intruded contemporaneously with the Paleoproterozoic
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Paleoproterozoic orogenesis and quartz-arenite deposition in the Little Chino Valley area, Yavapai tectonic province, central Arizona, USA.
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that covers roughly 12 square miles (31 km). It was once known as Mount Gurley, for the first governor of the Arizona Territory,
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Geologic Map of the Prescott National Forest and the Headwaters of the Verde River, Yavapai and Coconino Counties, Arizona
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The biotic communities at Granite Mountain range from montane conifer forest and juniper pinyon woodland, to interior
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rock; infrequently laminated, epidote-silica rock; thinly interlayered silica and carbonate; laminated, highly platy,
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Karlstrom, K.E., Ilg, B.R., Hawkins, D., Williams, M.L., Dumond, G., Mahan, K. and Bowring, S.A., 2012.
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Vishnu basement rocks of the Upper Granite Gorge: Continent formation 1.84 to 1.66 billion years ago.
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Spencer, J.E., Pecha, M.E., Gehrels, G.E., Dickinson, W.R., Domanik, K.J. and Quade, J., 2016.
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DeWitt, E., Langenheim, V., Force, E., Vance, R.K., Lindberg, P.A., and Driscoll, R.L., 2008.
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Adventuring in Arizona: The Sierra Club Travel Guide to the Grand Canyon State
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and each other ca. 1.7–1.66 Ga during the Yavapai and Mazatzal orogenies.
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Geologic map of the Jerome Canyon 7½' Quadrangle, Yavapai County, Arizona
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Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon
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up to 3 cm (1.2 in) in length and as much as eight percent
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Lopez, Kathy; Morgan Ranch Park Association Inc. (2011).
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from this granite yielded a U-Pb date of 1680 +/- 16 Ma.
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Granite Mountains (Arizona)

Elevation
 NAVD 88
Prominence
Coordinates
34°38′16″N 112°33′13″W / 34.637905414°N 112.553481219°W / 34.637905414; -112.553481219
Yavapai
Granite Mountain is located in Arizona
Yavapai County
Arizona, U.S.
Parent range
Sierra Prieta
Topo map
USGS
Age of rock
Proterozoic
Mountain type
Granite
Easiest route
Yavapai
Yavapai County, Arizona
John A. Gurley
Prescott National Forest
Sierra Prietas
Santa Maria Mountains
Paleoproterozoic
biotite
granodiorite
granite

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