The Sierra Nevada Batholith is a large batholith that is approximately 400 miles long and 60-80 miles wide which forms the core of the Sierra Nevada mountain...

crust. One such batholith is the Sierra Nevada Batholith, which is a continuous granitic formation that makes up much of the Sierra Nevada in California...

The Sierra Nevada (/siˌɛrə nɪˈvædə, -ˈvɑːd-/ see-ERR-ə nih-VA(H)D-ə) is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California...

was created and is now visible as the granite domes of the Sierra Nevada Batholith. Batholiths are large masses of igneous rock that form deep below the...

in New Mexico; the Ardnamurchan intrusion in Scotland; and the Sierra Nevada Batholith of California. Because the solid country rock into which magma...

stretched. The granite that forms Mount Whitney is part of the Sierra Nevada Batholith. In Cretaceous time, masses of molten rock that originated from...

Ranges. At its core, the SNGV block consists primarily of the Sierra Nevada batholith which has been tilted westward like a large trapdoor with its "hinge"...

or Cretaceous age, but were metamorphosed when plutons of the Sierra Nevada batholith intruded in the Cretaceous. The pendant may be several thousand...

the Sierra foothills into the Central Valley of California. Almost all of the landforms are cut from the granitic rock of the Sierra Nevada Batholith (a...

The Sherwin Range is a mountain range that is a sub-range of the Sierra Nevada system, in Mono County, eastern California. The range is also known locally...

gold mines. These mines, located primarily at the junction of the Sierra Nevada batholith with pre-Cretaceous schist and slate, stretched from Grub Gulch...

Era to become the geologic regions known as the Sierra Nevada Batholith, the Peninsular Ranges Batholith, (in the Peninsular Ranges), and other plutonic...

"Geologic and geophysical investigation of two fine-grained granites, Sierra Nevada Batholith, California: Evidence for structural controls on emplacement and...

activity associated with the early stages of the creation of the Sierra Nevada Batholith. 95% of these rocks were eventually removed by uplifted-accelerated...

of New York and Canada. He and his colleagues investigated the Sierra Nevada batholith, lavas from Pacific islands, and rhyolites from the Yellowstone...

Yosemite National Park's southeastern boundary, into plutons of the Sierra Nevada Batholith, which are slightly older. These intrusive suites also include...

plutonic rocks, the rocks that formed underneath the arc (e.g. the Sierra Nevada batholith), or in the sedimentary record as lithic sandstones. Paired metamorphic...

four large Late Cretaceous zoned intrusive suites in the central Sierra Nevada batholith. On a large scale, it is composed of Kinney Lakes granodiorite...

National Park is a national park of the United States in the southern Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California. The park was established on September 25...

western "outlier" of the ~93-85-Ma Tuolumne Intrusive Suite of the Sierra Nevada batholith. It is only slightly older than the undated Yosemite Creek Granodiorite...

the Sierra Nevada, with 57 peaks over 13,000 feet (4,000 m) in elevation. The peaks are typically made of granite from the Sierra Nevada Batholith, and...

Kern River Canyon through the mountainous area of the Southern Sierra Nevada Batholith. The fault was a reverse fault in the Early Cretaceous epoch during...

terranes and magma source development in the early Cretaceous Sierra Nevada batholith". Geosphere. 8 (2). Arizona Commerce Authority: 292. doi:10.1130/GES00745...

Coast Ranges in the west, the Nevadan belt in the middle (including the Sierra Nevada), and the Laramide belt in the east (including the Rocky Mountains)...

the crust to create large batholiths and volcanism. Although deformation in the western and central regions of the Sierra Nevada is widespread, deformation...

millions of years ago). Geologic History of California: A Brief Overview by Joel Michaelsen Dating of the Ages of Three Plutonic Episodes in the Sierra...

area of older intrusive (or plutonic) and metamorphic rock in the Sierra Nevada Batholith. It is part of a grouping of intrusions called the Tuolumne Intrusive...

GQ-1531. Bateman, PC (1992). "Plutonism in the central part of the Sierra Nevada batholith". California: U.S. Geological Survey. Professional Paper 1483....

during the Paleozoic, and sediments from this time are common in the Sierra Nevada, Klamath Mountains and eastern Transverse Range. Active subduction began...

of the Farallon slab is the extinguishing of magmatism in the Sierra Nevada batholith of California roughly 85 Ma. As the Farallon Plate subducted below...