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 Batholith
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
economicGeology associated with mineral deposits
extendsFrom southeastern Alaska
linked to: 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 Canadian Cordillera
North American Cordillera
length over 1800 kilometers
locatedIn Alaska
British Columbia
Yukon
locatedOn Pacific margin of western North America
majorIntrusionAge Cretaceous
Jurassic
Paleogene
metamorphism associated with high-grade regional metamorphism
orogeny Coast Orogen
Cordilleran Orogen
linked to: Cordilleran orogeny
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 Batholith
linked to: Coast Plutonic Complex
Coast Plutonic Complex alsoKnownAs Coast Plutonic Complex of western North America
linked to: Coast Plutonic Complex
Coast Plutonic Complex orogeny Coast Orogen
linked to: Coast Plutonic Complex
Boundary Ranges orogeny Coast Plutonic Complex
Chilcotin Ranges orogeny Coast Plutonic Complex
Kula Plate associatedWith Coast Mountains batholith
linked to: Coast Plutonic Complex
Kula Plate influencedFormationOf Coast Plutonic Complex
Sierra Nevada batholith relatedTo Coast Plutonic Complex