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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