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Batholith is a large emplacement of igneous intrusive rock
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- A large irregular mass of intrusive igneous rock that has melted or forced itself into surrounding strata
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Of the surface area of the batholith.
The batholith runs a length of ca.
It is a large batholith complex.
The batholith has caused metamorphism on its western edge.
This alteration is thought to also have affected the batholith itself.
The batholith is made of at least eight separate granitic plutons.
The secrets of a batholith.
A batholith is formed when many plutons converge to form a huge expanse of granitic rock.
This layer probably represents the relatively homogeneous part of the batholith.
Xenoliths from the Patagonian batholith are also found.
The primary rock comprising Slesse is grey diorite from the batholith.
This batholith complex has been interpreted as being the orogenic belt of the Coronation geosyncline.
The area is part of a rock formation known as the Revell Batholith.
The Median Batholith forms the boundary between the two provinces.
The rocks of the ancient plutons are known as the Sierra Nevada batholith.
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The granite Aleutian Range batholith has intruded through these rocks.
This formed the rocks seen today and are part of the Great Nova Scotia batholith.
The De Pas Batholith is associated with a linear trend west of this shear zone.
The Sierra batholith.
Constitution Crags is carved mostly from granite of the Golden Horn batholith.
The presence of detritus from the Idaho Batholith indicates a former location closer to southern Idaho.
The granite that forms Mount Whitney is part of the Sierra Nevada batholith.
A key element for correlation across the batholith is the Mississippian and older pericratonic Dorsey Complex.
If the pluton is large, it may be called a batholith or a stock.
Contact aureoles for the batholith are, contrary to other batholiths, largely undeformed.
The Cornubian batholith.
The batholith contains various circular plutons emplaced by stoping at pressures of 2 kbar or less.
The Coastal batholith.
The most prevalent geological feature in this ecoregion is its namesake, the Idaho batholith.
The Moruya batholith.
The allochthons are gently dipping thrust panels, interrupted by the mid-Cretaceous Cassiar Batholith.
Geologically the mountain is a granite batholith in a north-south oriented mountain range.
Over hundreds of millions of years, rocks that were once covering this batholith eroded away.
The target rocks were part of a batholith composed of adamellite, mangerite and lenses of anorthosite.
Argonaut Peak is a large bastion of clean granite rock, part of the Mount Stuart batholith.
The hornblende tonalite batholith is a major part of Aruba 's geology.
The Matobo Hills are composed entirely of granite, making up the Matopos Batholith.
The granitic Lac du Bonnet batholith lies below the till at a depth of approximately 12 metres.
This shear zone was later intruded by the granitic to tonalitic ~ 2.9 Ga Chipinda batholith.
To the north and northeast, the massive Chambers-Strathy Batholith was formed during one magmatic event.
The granite batholith is cut by dikes ; however, these are uncommon.
A geologically derived maximum age for the batholith is about 185 Ma.
The 3.1 Ga Mpuluzi batholith in the Barberton granite-gneiss terrane is made up of granite sheets.
Larvikite occurs in the Larvik Batholith a . k . a.
Compared to other subduction-related batholiths around the Pacific Ocean Colangüil Batholith is more felsic.
Following these data, I propose that the batholith is structured in eastward-tilted sills.
Four samples from the Nelson Batholith date three distinct intrusive phases spanning ca . 10 Ma.
Geology==Geologically the mountain is a granite batholith in a north-south oriented mountain range.
U-Pb dating of zircon from the Guichon Creek batholith indicates an emplacement age of 210 ± 3 Ma.
