Mt. Whitney (14,494', at right) is one of the youngest of the Late Cretaceous intrusions of the Sierra Nevada, the Whitney Granodiorite (~83 Ma) which is (like the Cathedral Peak Granite in Yosemite) the center of a large nested igneous complex. Lone Pine Peak, at the left side of the picture, is actually much lower. Whitney rises 10,000' (~3 km) above Owens Valley on the eastern side of the Sierra across large normal faults that dropped Owens Valley down in the past 4 My.