page_title: Batholith
hierarchical_section_title: Batholith
caption_attribution_description: Half Dome
context_page_description: A batholith is a large mass of intrusive igneous rock, larger than 100 square kilometres in area, that forms from cooled magma deep in the Earth's crust. Batholiths are almost always made mostly of felsic or intermediate rock types, such as granite, quartz monzonite, or diorite.
context_section_description: A batholith (from Greek bathos, depth + lithos, rock) is a large mass of intrusive igneous rock (also called plutonic rock), larger than 100 square kilometres (40 sq mi) in area,  that forms from cooled magma deep in the Earth's crust. Batholiths are almost always made mostly of felsic or intermediate rock types, such as granite, quartz monzonite, or diorite (see also granite dome).
caption: Half Dome, a granite monolith in Yosemite National Park and part of the Sierra Nevada Batholith
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