California Division of Mines: Special Report 53 - Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks of Parts of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (Contents)

California Division of Mines

Speial Report 53
Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks of Parts of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California

OUTLINE OF REPORT

Cover: The high Sierra from Kings Canyon Overlook, Sequoia National Park. Photo by Mary R. Hill.

Abstract
Introduction
Metamorphic rocks
Ash Mountain complex
Mesozoic plutonic rocks
   The plutons
   Order of intrusions
   Age of plutonic rocks
   Inclusions
Geologic structure
Economic geology
References cited

ILLUSTRATIONS

Plate

1. Geologic map of parts of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California (omitted from the online edition)

Figure

1. Index map of Sequoia area
2. Location map of modally analyzed granitic rocks
3. Modal data, granitic rocks

Photo

1. Moro Rock
2. Exfoliation in Giant Forest pluton
3. Foliation in Giant Forest pluton
4. Dike of Giant Forest material cutting hornfels and schist
5. Ash Mountain complex
6. Intrusion breccia
7. Inclusion swarm
8. Foliation in Tokopah pluton
9. Injection at contact of Giant Forest pluton and schist
10. Lit-par-lit injection of Giant Forest material into schist
11. Prominent joint system near Emerald Lake
12. Giant Forest plutonic rock invading hornfels and schist
13. Layered concentrations of hornblende in Giant Forest pluton
14. Contact of Tokopah granodiorite with Giant Forest pluton
15. Orbicular inclusion
16. Section along A-A' of photo 15
17. Recrystallized beta-quartz phenocryst
18. Plagioclase replaced by microcline
19. Apatite crystals in an inclusion
20. Large poikilitic brown hornblende crystal
21. Large poikiloblastic muscovite crystal
22. Fine-grained dark gray rock of Ash Mountain complex
23. Broken plagioclase phenocryst in meta-quartz diorite porphyry
24. Embayed quartz phenocryst in meta-quartz diorite porphyry
Tables

Table

1. Summary of mineralogic compositions of the plutonic rock
2. Modes of granitic rocks

STATE OF CALIFORNIA
GOODWIN J. KNIGHT, Governor

DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
DeWITT NELSON, Director

DIVISION OF MINES
FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO
GORDON B. OAKESHOTT, Chief

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