Outcrops of granitic rocks cover a large proportion of the Earth's surface and host a range of
spectacular landforms and landscapes, from extensive plains dotted by inselbergs to deeply …

The Rosy Finch shear zone (RFSZ) represents an example of synmagmatic, strike‐slip
tectonics in the east central Sierra Nevada and provides information on transpressional …

The orientations, locations, sizes, and relative abundances of secondary fractures observed
along small natural faults can be accounted for by a three‐dimensional elastic model …

Abstract Mid-to Late Cretaceous plutons in the central Sierra Nevada magmatic arc show
widely preserved magmatic foliation, whereas regionally developed solid-state foliation is …

viii debate of those earlier days has been beautifully summarized by HH Read in his
famous" Granite Controversy"(1957). Read's formulation of the controversy occurred at the …

Late-to post-magmatic deformation in slightly diachronous contiguous intrusions of the north-
western Adamello batholith (Southern Alps, Italy) is recorded as, from oldest to youngest:(i) …

The geometry, age, and mineralogy of steeply dip** joints in the Lake Edison Granodiorite
of California indicate that thermal stresses played a key role in the formation of the joints …

Brittle and ductile structures adjacent to fault terminations and echelon fault steps of left-
lateral strike-slip faults in the Lake Edison Granodiorite of the central Sierra Nevada …

Well-exposed shear zones in granitic rock of the Sierra Nevada are preserved in various
degrees of development, facilitating interpretation of the mechanisms of shear-zone …

A data set of 369 paleostress direction indicators (sets of dikes, veins, or fault slip vectors) is
collected from previous compilations and the geologic literature. Like contemporary data …