Fine Gold Intrusive Suite



The Fine Gold Intrusive Suite is one of several intrusive suites that crosses into Yosemite National Park. These also include


 * 1) Intrusive Suite of Buena Vista Crest
 * 2) Intrusive Suite of Jack Main Canyon
 * 3) Intrusive Suite of Merced Peak
 * 4) Intrusive Suite of Sonora Pass
 * 5) Intrusive Suite of Yosemite Valley
 * 6) Tuolumne Intrusive Suite

The Fine Gold Intrusive Suite is an intrusive suite which is massive (more than 3100 square kilometers) and long-lived (ca. 19 million years).

Where is intrudes
The Fine Gold Intrusive Suite intrudes both accreted oceanic terranes, and/or island-arc terranes, and, also continental crust.

External links and references

 * The Fine Gold Intrusive Suite: The roles of basement terranes and magma source development in the Early Cretaceous Sierra Nevada batholith
 * A large article