Change This Batholith 0 batholith is a large emplacement of plutonic rock that forms from cooled magma deep in the Earth's crust.
P1020323]]> #style_landform -119.502754,37.804901,0 Batholith 0 A batholith is formed when many plutons converge together to form a huge expanse of granitic rock. DSC_0690]]> #style_landform -119.493484,37.812496,0 Granite Boulder 0 A large granite boulder, speckled with
white and black from minerals forming
in the rock's cooling process, can be
seen in the foreground. 2630254624_4bf0007f6e_b]]> #style_landform -119.488335,37.805984,0 Granite 0 DSC_0692]]> #style_landform -119.481812,37.801918,0 Granite Batholith 0 GranitBatholiths]]> #style_landform -119.323364,38.048363,0 Sierra Nevadas Road 0 P1020340]]> #style_poi -119.21505,37.948528,0 Plutons Converge 0 P1020316]]> #style_landform -119.510307,37.807613,0 Mount Morrison 0 TectonicLift_Mt-Morrison_Central-Sierra]]> #style_landform -118.85804,37.566418,0 Mt Goode 0 P1020360]]> #style_landform -118.56411,37.168797,0 Lake Tenaya 0 P1020329]]> #style_poi -119.449539,37.836361,0 Mountain Folding 0 MountainFolding]]> #style_landform -118.850868,37.531715,0 Varied Mountainscape of the Eastern Sierras 0 VariedMountainscape]]> #style_landform -118.880821,37.581997,0 Talus in the Central Sierras 0 Scree, also called talus and detritic cone, is a term given to broken rock that appears at the bottom of crag, mountain cliffs, or valley shoulders, forming a scree slope. Talus_Central-Sierra]]> #style_landform -118.87001,37.575333,0 Erosion caused by water 0 WaterErosion]]> #style_landform -118.588654,37.322803,0 Cardinal Mountain 0 RoofPendant_Southern-Sierra]]> #style_landform -118.429871,37.015163,0 Middle Palisade Glacier 0 The Palisade Glacier and the Middle Palisade Glacier are two glaciers on the northeast side of the Palisades in the central Sierra Nevada of California. They are the largest glaciers in the Sierra Nevada. The Palisade Glacier is larger and it is also the southernmost glacier in the United States.[1]


The Palisade Glacier was created 700 years ago during the Little Ice Age. Glaciers have played in important role in formation the Sierra Nevadas. Glacier_Palisade_Southern-Sierra

]]> #style_poi -118.492188,37.091335,0 Red Cone 0 CinderCone_base-of-Southern-Sierra]]> #style_landform -118.289452,37.029419,0 An Example of Faulting 0 A fault, or fault line, is a planar rock fracture which shows evidence of relative movement.The white bands in the rock have moved vertically from the other white bands, an indication of faulting action.
Faulting]]> #style_landform -118.532265,37.1675,0 Death Valley, CA 0 The Death Valley was created by the crustal extension and stretching within this part of the North American Plate. The crust here has been stretched up to 100% of its original width. The crust underneath Death Valley and the Great basin is some of the thinnest in the world.


For More on Death Valley>>

]]> #style_poi -116.866669,36.455555,0 Evidence of Erosion 0 Erosion_Sediment-layers]]> #style_landform -116.155357,35.80751,0 Owen's Valley 0 extension and stretching within this part of the North American Plate.
The crust here has been stretched up to 100% of its original width. The crust underneath Owen's Valley and the Great basin is some of the thinnest in the world.
]]> #style_poi -118.23967,36.948246,0 Glacial Polish 0 Glacial polish is a characteristic of rock surfaces where glaciers have passed over bedrock, typically granite or other hard igneous or metamorphic rock. Moving ice will carry pebbles and sand grains removed from upper levels which in turn grind a smooth or groved surface upon the underlying rock. The presence of such polish indicates that the glaciation was relatively recent (in geologic time scale) or was subsequently protected by deposition, as such polish will be subsequently lost due to weathering processes (such as exfoliation).


Full article>>


All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

]]> #style_landform -118.708305,37.349689,0