Wyoming batholith

{{Short description|Granite batholith in central Wyoming}}

The Wyoming batholith is a granite batholith of Neoarchean origin {{Ma|Neoarchean|Paleoproterozoic}}—which forms the eroded core of the Granite and Laramie Mountains in central Wyoming.{{cite journal|author1=Davin A. Bagdonas|author2=Carol D. Frost|author3=C. Mark Fanning|title=The origin of extensive Neoarchean high-silica batholiths and the nature of intrusive complements to silicic ignimbrites: Insights from the Wyoming batholith, U.S.A.|journal=American Mineralogist|date=June 2016|volume=101|number = 6|pages=1332–1347|publisher=Mineralogical Society of America|url=http://www.minsocam.org/msa/ammin/toc/2016/Abstracts/AM101P1332.pdf|doi=10.2138/am-2016-5512|bibcode=2016AmMin.101.1332B |accessdate=June 8, 2016|quote=...Neoarchean granite batholith, herein named the Wyoming batholith, extends more than 200 km across central Wyoming in the Granite and the Laramie Mountains.}} The Wyoming batholith lies within the Wyoming Craton. The batholith, in its time, was a magma chamber. Contemporary magma chambers are filled with lava and buried deeply and are inaccessible. The Wyoming batholith is accessible for study, its overburden having eroded away.{{cite web|title=UW Scientists Gain Supervolcano Insights from Wyoming Granite|url=http://www.uwyo.edu/uw/news/2016/06/uw-scientists-gain-supervolcano-insights-from-wyoming-granite.html|website=uwyo.edu|accessdate=June 8, 2016|date=June 2, 2016|quote=...study the solidified magma chambers where erosion has removed the overlying rock....}}