Four magmatic fabrics in the Tuolumne batholith, central Sierra Nevada, California (USA): Implications for interpreting fabric patterns in plutons and evolution of magma chambers in the upper crust

Abstract

For the first time, four distinct magmatic fabrics are documented in a composite plutonic body, the Tuolumne batholith, central Sierra Nevada, California, USA. One type of fabric was formed by strain caused by highly localized magma flow (type 1), wherea

Keywords

• batholith
• magmatic fabric
• magma
• chamber
• magmatic arc
• pluton
• Sierra Nevada