Sierra Nevada Batholith
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title:
Sierra Nevada Batholith
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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 range in California, 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, relatively buoyant plutons, also called plutonic dia
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Batholith in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Nevada_Batholith
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2024-04-27T04:42:46Z
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