Granite/Batholiths

The gold formed by fluid inclusion in a 130-mile-long belt in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and not in the Mountains themselves.

Gold was probably initially concentrated from ocean water by volcanic vents in metamorphic rocks at the leading edge of the Smartville Block, a chunk of eastward-moving crust called an "island terrane", as it collided with the North American Plate about 165mya. During the period of collision, partial melting of this rock and saturation with water caused the gold and silica to dissolve in the water and flash into steam which made its way up through cracks and fissures. When the pressure and heat reduced, the gold and silica dropped out as veins of gold-laden quartz filling cracks in the country rock of the Plate.

Many millions of years later, large chunks of dense rock broke off the bottom of the North American Plate and descended into the Mantle. This caused the Plate to be thinner and lighter, resulting in a large fracture and upwelling of Plate material, which is now the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Erosional processes in the last four million years washed some of the gold out of the quartz and into fossil river beds, which was the source of the 1849 Gold Rush gold. The gold-rich quartz veins were found when the placer golds were running out.

The Sierra Nevada is a mountain range located in the states of California and Nevada.

Mainly California, though I believe it touches into Nevada.

Sierra Nevada will begin canning Sierra Nevada Pale Ale in cans by the end of 2011. It will be available in 12-packs of 12 ounce cans. Torpedo Extra IPA will also be available in 4-packs of 16 ounce cans.

It is Spanish for SNOWY MOUNTAINS . Sierra means "mountains" and Nevada means "snowy". Initially, the Spanish explorer was simply describing them, not naming them. However, that description was used on the first map and that became the name.

The Sierra Nevada mountain range is an example of block mountains

that it was magma about 210 million and 100 million years ago.

I think a Spanish person 'cause it is spanish for "snowy mountain range"

Sierra Nevada College was created in 1969.

The Sierra Nevada mountain range is incredibly diverse in its vegetation. There is much more than a person could possibly answer in this textual format. Here is a link to a website with a nicely presented guidebook to the plants and flowers of the Sierra Nevada's.

www.sierraplants.com/

Hope this helps. :)

According to Wikipedia, the Sierra Nevada began forming during the Triassic period, and the Appalachians were formed during the Ordovician period. This means that the Appalachians are much older.

Generally, more round, rolling mountains like the Appalachians are older than sharp, jagged ranges like the Rockies or Sierra Nevada.

1. desert regions

North America

The main mountains in Spain are either the Sierra Nevadas in the south or the Pyrenees that straddle the border with France.

The Sierra Nevadas are higher but the Pyrenees are longer.

The tallest mountain in Spain is Mt. Tiede in the Canary Islands but it is not a range. Not only that but it is only a couple hundred meters higher than the Mulhacen in the Sierra Nevada range.

The Sierra Nevada snowy mountain rangeis a mountain range in the U.S. states of California and Nevada, between the California Central Valley and the Basin and Range Province. Sierra Nevada means snowy hill. The Nevada state has some land of the Sierra Nevada mountain.

The address of the Central Sierra Arts Council is: 48 S Washington St, Sonora, CA 95370-4711

Where tectonic plates collide, the intervening crust can be folded or pushed up to form mountains. In the case of the Sierra Nevada, an ancient collision forced magma from an oceanic plate beneath the western part of North America. After millions of years, erosion and glaciation has exposed these underground rocks, or plutons, which form the bases of the mountains of the range.

Normal fault, i believe is true.

its important because people come here to snowboard and skii on it :) best ever

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The address of the Sierra Arts Foundation is: 200 Flint St, Reno, NV 89501-2000

The Great Basin