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period (155–170 Ma) by invasive volcanic flows creating batholithic masses of diorite, which also helped to create the island arcs associated with the San Juan
Islands. By the end of the late Jurassic period the area experienced uplift and erosion and was subjected to intense folding and faulting. At
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