Related Links


http://stormy.geology.yale.edu/kgl/Dept_Information/FieldTrips/Edge_of_North_America93/Edge_of_North_America93.html
This page is underconstruction but will hopefully review three aspects of the geology of California including the Sierra Nevada batholith.

http://www.geosci.unc.edu/faculty/glazner/Glazner_Res.html
This is Allen Glazner's page with lots of really nice photos!

http://www.seism.com/sscd.html
The Southern Sierran Continental Dynamics Page

http://www.uoregon.edu/%7Edogsci/dorsey/geo103/examtopics2.html
A class webpage from the University of Oregon outlining general geologic history.

http://www.tcd.ie/Natural_Resources/Geoscience/yosem1.htm
The Tuolumne Intrusive Suite, California

http://www.csupomona.edu/~geology/docs/sierra.html
A Field Trip to Owens Valley/Mammoth Lakes

http://home.earthlink.net/~mgordon324/sierra.htm
This link speaks for itself - just go! Tons of additional links from this site

http://virtual.yosemite.cc.ca.us/ghayes/granite.htm
The Sierra Nevada Batholith as exposed in the Yosemite Valley area and western foothills of the Sierran Nevada

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~hptaylor/Taylor_xenolith.html
Eclogitic residues from beneath the Sierra Nevada; similarities between the extraction of Cordilleran and Archean Granitoids

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~ducea/index.html
Homepage of Mihai Nicolae Ducea

http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~geo253vc/granodiorite.html
TONALITE-GRANODIORITE-GRANITE Tuolumne Intrusive Series, Sierra Nevada Batholith, Yosemite National Park, California

http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/geol212/cont_lithosphere.htm
Igneous Rocks of the Continental Lithosphere

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/faculty/saleeby/
Homepage of Jason B. Saleeby

http://zephyr.rice.edu/department/students/munger/pages/saltgran.html
Application of salt tectonics to the understanding of granite emplacement

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~dogsci/dorsey/geo101/disc3.5.html
Bonding, Silicates, and Rocks

There are tons of pages regarding different aspects of the Sierra Nevada batholith. From my search I chose to highlight the above pages.


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