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A batholith (from Greek bathos, depth + lithos, rock) is a large emplacement of igneous intrusive (also called plutonic) rock that forms from cooled magma deep in the Earth's crust. batholith is an exposed area of (mostly) continuous plutonic rock that covers an area larger than 100 square kilometers (40 square miles). Areas smaller than 100 square kilometers are called stocks.
Some plutons cut across the layering in country rock and are discordant, whereas others parallel the layering and are concordant.Part of the Sierra Nevada batholith in Yosemite National Park, California. The batholith, consisting of multiple intrusions of granitic rock, is more than 600 km long and up to 110 km wide.