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granodiorite (adjective): relating to or denoting a coarse-grained igneous rock consisting of plagioclase feldspar and quartz, often used for building and construction purposes
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- An intrusive igneous rock similar to granite, but containing more plagioclase than potassium feldspar.
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Genetically it is probably related to the main granodiorite.
Its composition is mainly granodiorite with phenocrysts of microcline.
Foliation in the southern part of the granodiorite.
Hybrid granodiorite is also recognised.
The steep left bank of the river is granodiorite.
Granodiorite blocks are found as xenoliths.
The mountain consists chiefly of granite and granodiorite.
Granodiorite crops out in many northern and central areas.
The orbicular body has a porphyritic granodiorite matrix.
There is also some granodiorite and outcrops of metamorphic rocks.
It is the extrusive equivalent of granodiorite.
Granodiorite is felsic to intermediate in composition.
Lamprophyres are usually associated with voluminous granodiorite intrusive episodes.
Granodiorite was mined for the Roman Empire where it was used as a building material.
The main rock types are quartz monzodiorite and granodiorite.
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Much of the local soil formed from granodiorite deposits and volcanic ash.
The magma will cool slowly to form granite or granodiorite.
The area is almost all granodiorite from the Jurassic period.
Volcanism was succeeded by carbonate sedimentation and intrusion of granodiorite plutons.
An orbicular granodiorite exists at Cordón de Lila south of Salar de Atacama.
It is composed of a series of rugged hills with folded granite and granodiorite.
This ice flow cut across the Willoughby granodiorite and adjacent metamorphic rocks.
The microgranite crops out in an apophysis north of the main granodiorite.
Granite and Granodiorite.
Yet the metal impregnation is most likely genetically related to the granodiorite.
The granodiorite completely engulfes the Johnson Granite Porphyry in the south.
The stereo net on the right shows the spatial organisation of the granodiorite.
In the past the Piégut-Pluviers Granodiorite was in high demand economically.
The densely forested hill has a flattened summit on which individual blocks of granodiorite lie.
These strata have diorite and granodiorite intrusions, probably formed in the Cretaceous Period.
This rock is believed to represent a roof facies of the Tombstone granodiorite.
Together with the leucogranite the granodiorite forms a domal swell in the basement - the Saint-Mathieu Dome.
The bulk of Crested Butte is composed of quartz monzonite porphyry and granodiorite porphyry.
A sample of granodiorite from Massif Central, France.
The Rosetta Stone is a stele made from granodiorite.
The granodiorite takes up about 250 square kilometers in surface area.
The Beaufor deposit is included in the Bourlamaque granodiorite.
The Piégut-Pluviers Granodiorite is not homogenous, but consists of several petrological facies,.
The Baw Baw massif consists of a late Devonian granodiorite pluton.
A sample of Klotassin granodiorite gave an age of 192 Ma confirming its Early Jurassic age.
The Willoughby granodiorite.
Stone Mountain 's composition actually ranges from quartz monzonite to granite and granodiorite.
The heterogeneous basement is composed of quartz diorite, granodiorite and Mesozoic metamorphic rocks.
Plagioclase-bearing paragneiss south of Nontron with big porphyroblasts - country rocks of the granodiorite.
In the Blue Tier Granite, granodiorite came first.
Pre-mineralization suites range in composition from diorite to granodiorite.
Granodiorite East, True width corresponds to approximately 50 % of the core length.
It is the fine-grained equivalent of granodiorite.
Three main units have been identified, one of granodiorite and two of granite.
The commune 's territory is underlain in its totality by Variscan basement rocks Piégut-Pluviers Granodiorite.
