Fine Gold Intrusive Suite
The Fine Gold Intrusive Suite is one of several intrusive suites that crosses into Yosemite National Park. These also include
- Intrusive Suite of Buena Vista Crest
- Intrusive Suite of Sonora Pass
- Intrusive Suite of Yosemite Valley
- Tuolumne Intrusive Suite
The Fine Gold Intrusive Suite is an intrusive suite which is massive (more than 3100 square kilometers) and long-lived (ca. 19 million years).[1]
Where is intrudes[]
The Fine Gold Intrusive Suite intrudes both accreted oceanic terranes, and/or island-arc terranes, and, also continental crust.[2]
References[]
- ^ "Abstract". Abstract. GeoScienceWorld. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
- ^ Lackey, Jade Star; M. Robinson Cecil; Windham, Cameron J.; Frazer, Ryan E.; Bindeman, Ilya N.; Gehrels, George E (2012). "The fine gold intrusive suite: The roles of basement terranes and magma source development in the early Cretaceous Sierra Nevada batholith". The fine gold intrusive suite: The roles of basement terranes and magma source development in the early Cretaceous Sierra Nevada batholith. Arizona Commerce Authority. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
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Categories:
- Geology of California
- Geology of Yosemite National Park
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