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batholith
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- igneous intrusion
- Has part
- pluton
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thumb|upright=1.3|Half Dome, a [[quartz monzonite monolith in Yosemite National Park and part of the Sierra Nevada Batholith]]
A batholith (from Ancient Greek βαθύς (bathús), meaning "deep", and λίθος (líthos), meaning "stone") is a large mass of intrusive igneous rock (also called plutonic rock), larger than 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).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “batholith” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.