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Origin and emplacement of the ultramafic rocks of the Emigrant Gap area, California Origin and emplacement of the ultramafic rocks of the Emigrant Gap area, California

The ultramafic bodies of the Emigrant Gap area are part of a mafic complex within a large composite pluton of the northern Sierra Nevada. The pluton was magmatically emplaced and is surrounded by an aureole of hornblende-hornfels facies rocks. Inclusions of country rock in ultramafic rock are of pyroxene-hornfels facies and appear to have been partly melted. Gravity studies indicate that...
Authors
O.B. James
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