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Plutons (noun): Large bodies of intrusive igneous rock that solidified below the Earth's surface
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These also include granodioritic to tonalitic plutons.
Gabbro is also found as plutons associated with continental volcanism.
Plutons of granodioritic composition syntectonically intrude the volcanic succession.
Anorthosites form in plutons and are composed mostly of plagioclase.
Rounded to elliptical dioritic enclaves are common in the three plutons.
They are formed by hundred of plutons that directly related to subduction.
It consists of at least four plutons.
The plutons of the eastern arc show a wider range of compositions.
The last contains large granitoid plutons and nappes.
Postkinematic Eocene plutons were emplaced at shallow crustal levels.
The batholith is made of at least eight separate granitic plutons.
Inclinations decrease near the plutons with little deviation in regional strike.
Volcanism was succeeded by carbonate sedimentation and intrusion of granodiorite plutons.
A batholith is formed when many plutons converge to form a huge expanse of granitic rock.
In the lower parts of plutons.
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All of these distinguishing characteristics for plutons suggest a different origin from the classical planets.
It is coeval with the emplacement of numerous continental crust derived plutons.
The episodic nature of the formation of the plutons is not yet well explained.
This foliation draws curved trajectories and expresses the intrusion of plutons.
The Algoman plutons are the youngest rocks in the region.
There is growing evidence that large homogenous plutons grew incrementally.
Several granite plutons such as that at Huelgoat were also emplaced at that time.
Similar ages have previously been reported for syenitic to granitic plutons of the region.
All these plutons were emplaced approximately at the change from Triassic to Jurassic time.
There is a steep macroscopic foliation in the adjacent rocks and in parts of the plutons.
The more compositionally homogeneous Devonian plutons probably represent partial melts of hybridized lower crust.
Melting of hydrous mantle overlying a dehydrating slab generated the plutons of the western arc.
The rocks of the ancient plutons are known as the Sierra Nevada batholith.
Basement rocks are sparsely located around some Triassic plutons.
Plutons and Volcanoes.
Metamorphic grade increases sharply northward approaching the large plutons of the Nelson suite.
Large irregular-shaped plutons are called either stocks or batholiths.
Most known pipes fed volcanoes, although pipes can also connect plutons.
For the most part, the plutons appear undeformed.
Around the plutons of the batholith, the older rocks recrystallized.
Following the war, he began a study of plutons and their interior structure.
The plutons belong to two families, biotite-amphibole granites and leucogranites.
Generally light colored, coarse-grained plutons of these compositions are referred to as granitoids.
Both assemblages host petrographically similar suites of calc-alkalic dioritic and granodioritic plutons.
The batholith contains various circular plutons emplaced by stoping at pressures of 2 kbar or less.
The co-crystallizing plagioclase crystals float, and eventually are emplaced into the crust as anorthosite plutons.
Why is compositional layering a common feature of mafic plutons but not of felsic plutons?
Granitoids, diorites, and gabbros intrude and embay supracrustal rocks as internal and external plutons.
The pre-Kenoran plutons and pre-Kenoran metamorphic phases are directly related to the volcanic evolution.
Diogenites are believed to have crystallized in deep plutons within Vesta 's crust.
If some plutons contain a significant mantle component, then Mesoproterozoic or older crust is required.
Stage 1: forceful emplacement of syenite plutons.
Granitic plutons seldom occur in the Insular Mountains, unlike the Coast Mountains.
All told there have been more than 50 plutons found in the park.
Many of the so-called plutons have “ eroded ” into shapes that defy orthodox explanation.
