The presence of granitoid clasts in Devonian sequences of the Mt Morgan area has been considered indicative of a Late Devonian age, with the clasts derived from the Middle Devonian (377 Ma) Mt Morgan Trondhjemite. However, a sequence of limestone and volcanolithic arenites and breccias containing Middle Devonian corals and conodonts, overlies a granitoid‐bearing conglomerate in Station Creek. This sequence, previously mapped as Dee Volcanics, is now assigned to the Raspberry Creek Formation of the Capella Creek Group. Petrographic and geochemical similarities between the granitoid clasts and phases of the Mt Morgan Trondhjemite indicate formation in similar tectonic environments by similar magmatic processes. These clasts were derived from either an earlier phase of Mt Morgan Trondhjemite magmatism, or from a discrete earlier magmatic episode of similar type and inferred tectonic setting to the Mt Morgan intrusion.
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