Structure and Petrology of the Oracle Granite, Pinal County, Arizona

Structure and Petrology of the Oracle Granite, Pinal County, Arizona

Oracle granite, probably emplaced in older Precambrian time contains the relic pattern imposed on the Pinal schist by the Mazatzal orogeny. The "granite" of that time was a granodiorite. It is now a porphyritic quartz monzonite that varies unsystematically toward granodiarite and biotite g...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Banerjee, Anil K.
Other Authors: Mayo, Evans B.
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 1957
Subjects:
Arizona
metamorphic rocks
Oracle granite
petrology
physical geology
Pinal County Arizona
Precambrian
structure and petrology
United States
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/249271

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