What type of mountains are commonly found through out the sierra nevada range i california?

This province has several subprovinces, including the active and sometimes deadly volcanoes of the Cascade Range and the young, steep mountains of the Sierra Nevada. The rocks that form the backbone of the Sierra Nevada are mostly granitic rocks that formed during the Mesozoic Era, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

a characteristic is a deep cut in the earth or left over rock aka till.