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- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith abstract "The Sierra Nevada Batholith is a large batholith which forms the core of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California, USA, exposed at the surface as granite. The batholith is composed of many individual masses of rock called plutons, which formed deep underground during separate episodes of magma intrusion, millions of years before the Sierra itself first began to rise. The extremely hot, more buoyant plutons, also called plutonic diapirs, intruded through denser, native country rock and sediments, never reaching the surface. At the same time, some magma managed to reach the surface as volcanic lava flows, but most of it cooled and hardened below the surface and remained buried for millions of years.The batholith – the combined mass of subsurface plutons – became exposed as tectonic forces initiated the formation of the Basin and Range geologic province, including the Sierra Nevada. As the mountains rose, the forces of erosion eventually wore down the material which had covered the batholith for millions of years. The exposed portions of the batholith became the familiar granite peaks of the High Sierra, including for example, Mount Whitney, Half Dome and El Capitan. However, most of the batholith remains below the surface.".
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith thumbnail Yosemite_20_bg_090404.jpg?width=300.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageExternalLink granite.htm.
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- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageOutDegree "30".
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- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Bald_Rock,_California.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Bald_Rock_Dome.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Basin_and_Range.
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- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Batholith.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Buoyancy.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink California.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Category:Batholiths.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geology_of_California.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Category:Sierra_Nevada_(U.S.).
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Country_rock_(geology).
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Diapir.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Diapirs.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink El_Capitan.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Erosion.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Farallon_Plate.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Geologic_timeline_of_Western_North_America.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Granite.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Half_Dome.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Intrusion.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Magma.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Mount_Whitney.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink National_Park_Service.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink North_American_Plate.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Pluton.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Plutons.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Sierra_Nevada-Great_Valley_Block.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Sierra_Nevada_(U.S.).
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Sierran_Arc.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Subduction.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Tectonic.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Tectonics.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink Terrane.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink USA.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLink File:Yosemite_20_bg_090404.jpg.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wikiPageWikiLinkText "Sierra Nevada Batholith".
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith hasPhotoCollection Sierra_Nevada_Batholith.
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- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith subject Category:Batholiths.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith subject Category:Geology_of_California.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith subject Category:Sierra_Nevada_(U.S.).
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith hypernym Batholith.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith type Article.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith type Mountain.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith type Article.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith type Range.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith comment "The Sierra Nevada Batholith is a large batholith which forms the core of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California, USA, exposed at the surface as granite. The batholith is composed of many individual masses of rock called plutons, which formed deep underground during separate episodes of magma intrusion, millions of years before the Sierra itself first began to rise.".
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith label "Sierra Nevada Batholith".
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- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith sameAs Батоліт_Сьєрра-Невади.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith sameAs Q7511519.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith sameAs Q7511519.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith wasDerivedFrom Sierra_Nevada_Batholith?oldid=653668888.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith depiction Yosemite_20_bg_090404.jpg.
- Sierra_Nevada_Batholith isPrimaryTopicOf Sierra_Nevada_Batholith.