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<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:creator>Paul C. Bateman</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1961</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;This report establishes lithologic units among the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;granitic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;rocks of the east-central&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;Sierra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;Nevada&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;near&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;Bishop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;California&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;In&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;this area the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;Sierra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;Nevada&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;batholith is composed chiefly of quartz-bearing plutonic rocks ranging&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;composition from quartz diorite to alaskite but includes scattered small masses of darker and older plutonic rocks and remnants of metamorphosed sedimentary and volcanic rocks. The&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;granitic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;rocks are&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;discrete plutons, either&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;sharp contact with one another or separated by thin septa of metamorphic or mafic igneous rock or by late aplitic dikes. The&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;granitic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;rocks are grouped into lithologic units on the basis of composition, texture, and intrusive relations. The units include six new&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;formations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, three informal units made up of the rocks&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;several plutons, and four informal units that include the rocks&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;single plutons. The new&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ScopusTermHighlight"&gt;formations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;are the Inconsolable Granodiorite, Tinemaha Granodiorite, Wheeler Crest Quartz Monzonite, Round Valley Peak Granodiorite, Lamarck Granodiorite, and Tungsten Hills Quartz Monzonite.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1130/0016-7606(1961)72[1521:GFITES]2.0.CO;2</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Geological Society of America</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Granitic formations in the east-central Sierra Nevada near Bishop, California</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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