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 Jack Main Canyon
- Intrusive Suite of Merced Peak
- 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 edit
The Fine Gold Intrusive Suite intrudes both accreted oceanic terranes, and/or island-arc terranes, and, also continental crust.[2]
References edit
- ^ Lackey, Jade Star; Sendek, Callie L.; Eisenberg, Jane L. (January 2014). "Abstract". GeoScienceWorld. doi:10.1130/2014.0034(02). 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". Geosphere. 8 (2). Arizona Commerce Authority: 292. doi:10.1130/GES00745.1. hdl:10211.3/207212. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
External links and references edit
- The Fine Gold Intrusive Suite: The roles of basement terranes and magma source development in the Early Cretaceous Sierra Nevada batholith
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