
The Fine Gold Intrusive Suite is one of several
intrusive suite
An intrusive suite is a group of plutons related in time and space.Glazner, Allen F, Stock, Greg M. (2010). ''Geology Underfoot in Yosemite''. Mountain Press, p. 45. . All rocks in an intrusive suite result from the same magma-producing event.The ...
s that crosses into
Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park ( ) is an American national park in California, surrounded on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers an ...
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Intrusive Suite of Buena Vista Crest
The Intrusive Suite of Buena Vista Crest is an intrusive suite which extends southward, from Yosemite Valley to Yosemite National Park's southeastern boundary, into plutons of the Sierra Nevada Batholith, which are slightly older. These intrus ...
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Intrusive Suite of Jack Main Canyon
Intrusive may refer to:
* Intrusiveness, a typically unwelcome behavior, interrupting and disturbing to others
* Intrusive rock, intrusion of molten magma leaving behind igneous rock
* Saltwater intrusion, the movement of saline water into fres ...
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Intrusive Suite of Merced Peak
The Intrusive Suite of Merced Peak is one of several intrusive suites in Yosemite National Park. These also include:
# Fine Gold Intrusive Suite
# Intrusive Suite of Buena Vista Crest
# Intrusive Suite of Jack Main Canyon
# Intrusive Suite of ...
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Intrusive Suite of Sonora Pass
The Intrusive Suite of Sonora Pass (also, the Sonora Pass Intrusive Suite) is one of several intrusive suites in Yosemite National Park. These also include
# Fine Gold Intrusive Suite
# Intrusive Suite of Buena Vista Crest
# Intrusive Suite of ...
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Intrusive Suite of Yosemite Valley
The Intrusive Suite of Yosemite Valley (see Yosemite Valley) is one of several intrusive suites in Yosemite National Park. These also include
# Fine Gold Intrusive Suite
# Intrusive Suite of Buena Vista Crest
# Intrusive Suite of Jack Main Cany ...
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Tuolumne Intrusive Suite
The Fine Gold Intrusive Suite is an
intrusive suite
An intrusive suite is a group of plutons related in time and space.Glazner, Allen F, Stock, Greg M. (2010). ''Geology Underfoot in Yosemite''. Mountain Press, p. 45. . All rocks in an intrusive suite result from the same magma-producing event.The ...
which is massive (more than 3100 square kilometers) and long-lived (ca. 19 million years).
Where is intrudes
The Fine Gold Intrusive Suite intrudes both accreted
oceanic terranes
In geology, a terrane (; in full, a tectonostratigraphic terrane) is a crust fragment formed on a tectonic plate (or broken off from it) and accreted or " sutured" to crust lying on another plate. The crustal block or fragment preserves its ow ...
, and/or island-arc terranes, and, also
continental crust
Continental crust is the layer of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks that forms the geological continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores, known as continental shelves. This layer is sometimes called '' sial' ...
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References
External links and references
The Fine Gold Intrusive Suite: The roles of basement terranes and magma source development in the Early Cretaceous Sierra Nevada batholithA large article
Geology of California
Geology of Yosemite National Park
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