Sample Y-161

NavDat sample number 32588 · GRANITE

Sample

Sample ID	Y-161
Rock name	GRANITE
Rock type	PLUTONIC
Composition	FELSIC
Material	IGNEOUS

Location

Latitude	37.7033
Longitude	-119.652
Location	Yosemite Valley
State / province	California
Pluton	Taft Leucogranite

Age

Age (Ma)	Error	Min	Max	Geologic age	Dated by
100		90	110

Analyses

Whole rock

Item	Value	Std. dev.	Unit	Method
SIO2	75.2		WT%	RAPID_ROCK
TIO2	0.19		WT%	RAPID_ROCK
AL2O3	14		WT%	RAPID_ROCK
FE2O3	0.53		WT%	RAPID_ROCK
FEO	0.8		WT%	RAPID_ROCK
MNO	0.03		WT%	RAPID_ROCK
MGO	0.33		WT%	RAPID_ROCK
CAO	1.6		WT%	RAPID_ROCK
NA2O	3.3		WT%	RAPID_ROCK
K2O	3.9		WT%	RAPID_ROCK
P2O5	0.11		WT%	RAPID_ROCK

References

Bateman, Paul C; Dodge, Franklin C W; Bruggman, Peggy E (1984) Major oxide analyses, CIPW norms, modes, and bulk specific gravities of plutonic rocks from the Mariposa 1 degrees by 2 degrees sheet, central Sierra Nevada, California. Open-File Report - U. S. Geological Survey, Report: OF 84-0162, 59 pp., 1984