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What does Plutonic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Plutonian; relating to the god Pluto or to the underworld.
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Mr Gutnick was responsible for overseeing the discovery, development and operation of the world class Plutonic, Bronzewing and Jundee gold mines in Australia.
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.
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.
The magmatic fabric of a plutonic rock forms during a relatively short time interval, after ascent and before final crystallization of magma.

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