Intrusive Suite of Sonora Pass

These also include The Intrusive Suite of Sonora Pass is ~92-89 Ma, and is the northernmost of four large Late Cretaceous zoned intrusive suites in the central Sierra Nevada batholith.

[1] On a large scale, it is composed of Kinney Lakes granodiorite and the younger Topaz Lake granodiorite.

[2] On a finer scale, the Intrusive Suite of Sonora Pass is made of light-gray, coarse-grained biotite granodiorite, plus granite with roughly equant, well-formed potassium feldspar phenocrysts composing about 2–10% of the rock.

Quartz usually occurs in clots of 0.5 centimetres (0.20 in).

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