The Fine Gold Intrusive Suite is one of several intrusive suites 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 ar ...

. 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 Tuolumne 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 Jack Main Canyon # Intrusive Suite of Mer ...

The Fine Gold Intrusive Suite is an intrusive suite 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, 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'' be ...

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 batholith

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