Geologic journey into the US Sierra Nevada

This new field-trip guide from The Geological Society of America takes readers on a six-day, west-to-east geologic journey across the Mesozoic magmatic arc of the central Sierra Nevada in California, USA. Volume editors Vali Memeti of UCLA, Scott R. Paterson of UCLA, and Keith D. Putirka of CSU-Fresno have compiled work by multiple authors into a comprehensive, well-illustrated guide book.

The 116-page book features a summary of field, structural, geochemical, and geochronologic data on the Guadalupe Igneous Complex and nearby Hornitos pluton; the Fine Gold Intrusive Suite; the Yosemite Valley Intrusive Suite; and the Tuolumne Intrusive Complex.

This guide also includes data on the basement terranes intruded by these intrusions, Mesozoic volcanic-sedimentary sections, and data derived of several Sierra Nevada-wide data sets (plutonic, volcanic and sedimentary geochronology, strain analyses, structures, and geochemistry). Syntheses of these data sets at the end of the guide focus on magmatic processes from the mineral to the arc scale, as well as contemporaneous tectonics, and the tempos controlling magmatism, deformation, exhumation, and erosion/redeposition in the Sierran arc.

More information:
Formation of the Sierra Nevada Batholith: Magmatic and Tectonic Processes and Their Tempos
Edited by Vali Memeti, Scott R. Paterson, and Keith D. Putirka
Geological Society of America Field Guide 34
FLD034, 116 p., $60.00; Member price $45.00
ISBN 978-0-8137-0034-2

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