Sierra Batholith and Subduction Zone

Геология средней Калифорнии можеть быть классическим образцом модели коллизии плит, зоны субдукции и магматизма дуги на континентальной границе.


KEY WORDS FOR INTERNET SURFING

the Sierra Nevada, subduction zone, granitic batholith, volcanic arc, Sierra Nevada Batholith , batholith belt on the west continental margin of North and South America, plutonic complex, granite mountains, limestone, dolomite, quartz sandstone, slat, offshore, the North American and Pacific plates converge, subduction along the western margin of North America, the pressure and friction, the crust of the Pacific plate, the down-going plate, melting, dehydration, magma, mantle wedge, the continental crust, plumes of liquid plutonic rock, buoyant plutonic diapires, country rock, volcanic lava flow,magmatic arc, plate collision,Farallon Plate, Farallon Plate subduction, North American Plate, accretion, terrane, continental margin, active volcanoes, silicate-rich magma, andesitic lava, transform faulting, would favor the continued upwelling of magma into the extended crust, faulting, folding, magma emplacement, shearing, the heat from the plutonic intrusions, fluids, adjacent rocks, chemical reaction, concentrating of gold, chromium, tellurium, veins, pockets, granodiorite, felsic rocks, remnants of the marine rock, roof pendant, tilting, pluton, granite, granodiorite, tonalite, diorite, Tuolumne series, mafic plutonic rock, mafic stress rock, hornblende, plagioclase feldspar, red garnet, inclusions, black slates, foliated metamorphic rock, gneiss, slate, schist, magma chamber, fossil, fold, reverse fault, schistosity, lineation, metasedimentary rock, metavolcanic rock, Shoo Fly complex, trondhjemite, biotite granite, hornblende tonalite, peperite, subvolcanic magma chamber, Sierra Buttes arc, chert, black shale, radiolaria, volcanic island arc, eruption in the vicinity, Ў§exoticЎЁ terrane, Calaveras complex, greenstone, gabbro, ultramafic rock, Maroposa formation, mariposite, alteration, serpentine, hydrothermal fluid, massive white quartz vein, mariposite schist, calcite, pyrite, calaverite , lode metal deposit, migration of gold-bearing fluids, submarine volcanic vein, gold mineralization, unconformity, post-intrusive cooling, erosional history, paleotopography, uplift mechanism, tectonic, sedimentology, normal faulting, Mehrten Formation, inverted topography, U-shaped canyon, glacier erosion, glacial outwash, alluvial deposit

REFERENCES


http://www.cnsm.csulb.edu/departments/geology/people/bperry/IgneousRocksTour/IgneousIntrusions.html
http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/314584180zykfvZ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_topography
http://www.pitt.edu/~cejones/GeoImages/3IntrusiveBodies/1Plutonsz/2SierraNevadaCloseUps.html granite
http://www.colorado.edu/GeolSci/Resources/WUSTectonics/SierraBatholith/mesozoic.htm
http://geology.csupomona.edu/docs/sierra.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrane
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farallon_Plate
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&q=Tuolumne%20Meadows&tbs=isch:1
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http://bulletin.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/88/3/335
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Сьерра-Невада
Main illustrations
Foothills and pendants
Glaciation