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7 years ago
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Usually associated with mountain building, batholiths are often emplaced near continental margins during periods of subduction. As the subducting slab descends, it begins to melt, and multiple plutons are intruded beneath the continent to form the core of the volcanic arc. The Sierra Nevada Mountains, for example, are comprised of a granitic batholith, which is made up of hundreds of individual plutons intruded over a period of several million years. Emplacement of the Sierra Nevada batholith occurred during a mountain building episode known as the Nevadan orogeny , initiated during the Jurassic. Uplift and erosion of the area later exposed the batholith, which now forms the spine of the famous mountains.

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