2015. Note the late-Jurassic (160-140 Ma) and late-Cretaceous (105-80 Ma) in the Sierra Nevada batholith Left: generalized outline of the Sierra Nevada Batholith, CA. Right: simplified geologic map of ...
Over millions of years, the Sierra Nevada Batholith was pushed up (uplifted) due to plate tectonic subduction (one tectonic plate sinking beneath another tectonic plate). The sediments atop the ...