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Plutonic rocks can be dense, silica-poor and dark in colour, like most cumulates, or silica-rich and pale in colour like the melt remaining after cumulate formation.
In this area, various phases of the Early Devonian South Nepisiguit River Plutonic Suite intrude rocks of both the Miramichi and Tobique zones, obscuring the contact in many places.
Plutonic or intrusive rocks result when magma cools and crystallizes slowly within the Earth's crust.
These rocks are invariably intensely hornfelsed due to the nearby, and presumably subjacent, intrusions of the South Nepisiguit River Plutonic Suite.
Plutonic rocks also tend to be less texturally varied and less prone to gaining structural fabrics.
Mr Gutnick was responsible for overseeing the discovery, development and operation of the world class Plutonic, Bronzewing and Jundee gold mines in Australia.
The presence of plutonic rocks here suggests that these regions too have been highly extended.
Permian and Triassic plutonic complexes comprise monzonite, granite, granodiorite or tonalite with minor gabbro and diorite.
Enstatite occurs in plutonic basic and ultrabasic rocks such as peridotite and norite, and also in some high-grade metamorphic rocks.
The magmatic fabric of a plutonic rock forms during a relatively short time interval, after ascent and before final crystallization of magma.
The present study was conducted entirely in U2 plutonic rocks, which, in the Bonifacio area, are locally covered by Miocene transgressive marine sediments.
Overthrusting, volcanism, and plutonic igneous intrusion were identified as originating above the subduction zone where one plate is forced beneath the edge of its neighbour.
However, Lower Cretaceous plutonic rocks have not been found in outcrop.
Although closely associated with plutonic igneous rocks, porphyry mineralization commonly encompasses large volumes of the surrounding host rocks to the intrusion.
Fractional crystallization is usually important in plutonic rocks, whereas liquation can be significant in both plutonic and volcanic environments.
It also occurs in acidic plutonic rocks such as granites in association with iron-enriched amphiboles and pyroxenes.
A focus is the distribution, nature, age, tectonic setting and metallogeny of volcanic and plutonic rocks.
As a result of enormous pressure and high temperature, 20 to 25 kilometres of rocky mass covered the plutonic and metamorphic rock of the area.
Mapping of plutonic rocks in the northern and central parts of the map area will also be undertaken.
The area between the Pacific Ocean and this valley is formed primarily of plutonic, volcanic and metamorphic rocks.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They also are seen, in some instances, to pass insensibly into the unstratified division of a, or the Plutonic rocks.
Also, he learned that Gluck had just sailed on the Green Star liner Plutonic for the United States.
As to flint, that would not be wanting in these regions of plutonic origin.
He has neither the cunning nor the ambition to establish the plutonic empire with it.
In the plutonic system, there is one simple and constant order assumed, which may be supposed eternal.
The plutonic rocks which penetrate them are generally granite of various degrees of firmness.
They loved their city and worked for it with a plutonic energy which was always ardently vocal.
Here, amid these plutonic peaks, are the energies of volcanic action best studied.
The plutonic rocks may be treated of next in order, as they are most nearly allied to the volcanic class already considered.
In its course it affords a good exemplification of the passage from the trappean into the plutonic, or highly crystalline texture.
Carbonatites are plutonic rocks from great depth and occur with syenitic intrusions and amongst more exotic minerals can also carry copper-silver and gold.
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