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What is a pluton?

What is a pluton? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (mineralogy) A body of igneous rock formed beneath the surface of the earth by consolidation of magma
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An exhumation event, defined as the vertical displacement of rocks with respect to the surface, may have started coevally with the emplacement of the pluton.
The Boisvert tonalite pluton crosscuts these volcanic rocks in the project's south-eastern quarter.
One of our huge shells fell midway of the pluton, which at once went down with an awful plunge.
Water would naturally percolate through the rocks, and this would speed up the cooling of the pluton.
The dip slopes are interpreted as separating individual sills near the base of the pluton.
Some 600 m below this breccia the pluton is pervaded by a fine-grained granophyre, apparently the product of a sudden and final crystallization.

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