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Day 4 of the Field Forum is dedicated entirely to the magmatic evolution of the Tuolumne Intrusive Complex. The Tuolumne Intrusive Complex is mostly located in Yosemite National Park and is superbly exposed due to a series of glaciations that started 2–3 million years ago and ended ca. 10,000 yr B.P. one of the many reasons why it has become one of the most studied intrusions in the world. We will be driving from Mammoth Lakes to Yosemite National Park taking Hwy 395 north and then Hwy 120 west crossing the entire Tuolumne Intrusive Complex before we start off at its western margin. On this side, the Tuolumne Intrusive Complex intruded into the rocks of the Yosemite Valley Intrusive Suite, Sentinel, and Yosemite Creek granitoids (Day 3). Today we will make stops along Hwy 120 while traversing the Tuolumne Intrusive Complex from west to east ( Fig. 4-1) looking at exposures near the road and discussing field data, structural geology, geochronology, and geochemistry from the Tuolumne Intrusive Complex…

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