File:Butte Quartz Monzonite (Late Cretaceous, 76 Ma; north of Butte, Montana, USA) 2.jpg

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English: Quartz monzonite with weathering stains in the Cretaceous of Montana, USA.

Seen here is part of a spheroidally-weathered quartz monzonite boulder near Butte, Montana. The rocks in the area have been richly mineralized with copper sulfides and other metallic minerals.

Geologic unit: Butte Quartz Monzonite, Campanian Stage, late Late Cretaceous, 76 Ma

Locality: boulder between Moulton Reservoir Road and Yankee Doodle Tailings Pond, north of the town of Butte, northern Silver Bow County, western Montana, USA
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Author James St. John

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