Batholith

Map of the Cornish Batolito in the southwest of England. The main granite outcrops are appreciated. The 20 mGal contour of Bouguer anomaly also appears as it indicates the location of negative gravity anomalies associated with igneous intrusions in continental cortex.

Half Dome (Medio Domo) in Yosemite National Park is part of the Nevada Batolito

A batholith (from the Greek, bathos and lithos, meaning deep and stone, respectively) is an extensive mass of granitoids that extends for hundreds of kilometers and covers more than 100 square kilometers in the Earth's crust. Batholiths are composed of multiple individual plutons which may overlap or intersect. The large volumes of batholiths are due to extensive and repeated magma production during periods of orogenesis.

Batholiths

• Granite Batolito de Los Pedroches (Córdoba, Spain)
• Batolito de Sierra Nevada
• Batolito de la Sierra de Andújar Jaen.
• Batolito cornubiano
• Peruvian Coast Batolito
• Batolito de la Cordillera Blanca
• Central Chilean Coastal Batolito
• Batolito de la Cordillera Blanca
• Batolito de Chiapas
• Batolito de Vilcabamba
• Batolito de Panguipulli
• Nor-Patagonic Batolito
• Southern-Patagonic Batolito
• Batolito de Colangüil
• Batolito de San Lorenzo
• Batolito antioqueño
• La Pedriza