Coast Plutonic Complex

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The Coast Plutonic Complex is a vast belt of granitic and related intrusive rocks forming the core of the Coast Mountains along the Pacific margin of western North America.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf batholithic belt
geologic province
plutonic complex
ageRange Cenozoic
Mesozoic
alsoKnownAs Coast Plutonic Complex
surface form: Coast Plutonic Batholith

Coast Plutonic Complex
surface form: Coast Plutonic Complex of western North America
boundedBy Insular Belt to the west
Intermontane Belt to the east
contains batholiths
plutons
country Canada
United States of America
surface form: United States
economicGeology associated with mineral deposits
extendsFrom Southeastern Alaska
surface form: southeastern Alaska
extendsTo near Vancouver, British Columbia
forms core of the Coast Mountains
geologicSetting continental magmatic arc
hostRockRelationship intrudes older metamorphic and sedimentary rocks
isPartOf North American Cordillera
surface form: Canadian Cordillera

North American Cordillera
length over 1800 kilometers
locatedIn Alaska
British Columbia
Yukon
locatedOn Pacific coast of North America
surface form: Pacific margin of western North America
majorIntrusionAge Cretaceous
Jurassic
Paleogene
metamorphism associated with high-grade regional metamorphism
orogeny Coast Plutonic Complex self-linksurface differs
surface form: Coast Orogen

Cordilleran orogeny
surface form: Cordilleran Orogen
partOf Coast Mountains
primaryRockType granite
granodiorite
tonalite
region Pacific Northwest
rockType felsic intrusive rock
intermediate intrusive rock
significance one of the largest contiguous granitic belts on Earth
structuralFeature forms a long, continuous magmatic belt
studyDiscipline igneous petrology
structural geology
tectonics
tectonicOrigin subduction-related magmatism
tectonicPlateInteraction Farallon Plate subduction beneath North America
Kula Plate subduction beneath North America

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Coast Mountains orogeny Coast Plutonic Complex
Coast Plutonic Complex alsoKnownAs Coast Plutonic Complex
this entity surface form: Coast Plutonic Batholith
Coast Plutonic Complex alsoKnownAs Coast Plutonic Complex
this entity surface form: Coast Plutonic Complex of western North America
Coast Plutonic Complex orogeny Coast Plutonic Complex self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Coast Orogen
Boundary Ranges orogeny Coast Plutonic Complex
Chilcotin Ranges orogeny Coast Plutonic Complex
Kula Plate associatedWith Coast Plutonic Complex
this entity surface form: Coast Mountains batholith
Kula Plate influencedFormationOf Coast Plutonic Complex
Sierra Nevada batholith relatedTo Coast Plutonic Complex