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    basaltic–rhyolitic province (LBRP) Large plutonic province (LPP) Large granitic province (LGP) Large mafic plutonic province Because large igneous provinces...
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    January 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2014. Francois Debon (1986). "The Four Plutonic Belts of the Transhimalaya-Himalaya: a Chemical, Mineralogical, Isotopic...
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    Arkosic Formation. The Salib in turn overlies the eroded Aqaba Complex of plutonic granitoids. An aquifer forms along this lithologic contact, with springs...
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    the grains to display some degree of rounding. Quartz grains evolve from plutonic rock, which are felsic in origin and also from older sandstones that have...
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    Chilcotin River /tʃɪlˈkoʊtɪn/ located in Southern British Columbia, Canada is a 241 km (150 mi) long tributary of the Fraser River. The name Chilcotin comes...
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    weathered meta-sediments, especially biotite schist and gneiss, intruded by plutonic (granitic) rocks such as quartz diorite and granodiorite. Both formations...
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    gneisses are thought to be granitic, with subsidiary mafic and ultramafic plutonic rocks giving an overall bimodal character. Some variation in the age of...
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    Peridotite (category Plutonic rocks)
    Francisco. National Park Service. Retrieved 3 September 2021. Nesse 2000, pp. 241–242. "Spinel peridotite". National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian...
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    or twelve 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) from the district of Darsait to Yiti. Plutonic rocks constitute the hills and mountains of Muscat and span approximately...
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    nonconformity with the Vishnu Basement Rocks and other Precambrian metamorphic or plutonic rocks. Within the eastern Grand Canyon, the Tapeats Sandstone is separated...
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    west and east of Llullaillaco: The 282 ± 7 million years old Llullaillaco plutonic complex, the Devonian-Carboniferous Zorritas Formation and Oligocene-Miocene...
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    being 91.2 ± 2 million years old. This rock, a granite, may be part of a plutonic basement. Younger basement rocks comprise Miocene marine sediments and...
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    the Garibaldi chain consists of granitic and dioritic rocks of the Coast Plutonic Complex, which makes up much of the Coast Mountains. This is a large batholith...
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    dyke swarm. The protoliths for the Scourian complex were mainly granitic plutonic rocks intruded in the interval 3.0–2.7 Ga. They were metamorphosed to granulite...
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    underwent slow evolution in the 1,000,000 years preceding each eruption. Plutonic rocks linked to Pastos Grandes were erupted from the Chascon-Runtu Jarita...
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    medium; volcanic and pyroclastic spills of andecitic Cretaceous composition; plutonic rocks of basic composition and basic ultra late Paleozoic, Cretaceous limestones...
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    Archean and Paleoproterozoic rocks) is a northwest-southeast diagonal. Plutonic rocks that formed during accretion of volcanic arcs or continental collisions...
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  • 1130/GSAB-45-877. Grout, F. F. (1937). "Criteria of origin of inclusions in plutonic rocks". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 48 (11): 1521–1572. Bibcode:1937GSAB...
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    transform ruptures. (3)Volcaniclastic lithic sand and more complex volcano-plutonic sands derived from magmatic arcs are present in trenches, forearc basins...
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    arc and while it did not contain oceanic crust it was a marine basin. Plutonic rocks cropping out in Cordón de Lila and Sierra de Almeida south of Salar...
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    "Million-year melt–presence in monotonous intermediate magma for a volcanic–plutonic assemblage in the Central Andes: Contrasting histories of crystal-rich...
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  • tentative U-Pb isotopic age of 625+/-25Ma being suggested. The largest plutonic body in the terrane has limited outcrop and is sheared by the Llyn Shear...
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    of the Hayfork Terrane, which was formed about 165 million years ago by plutonic activity beneath the Pacific Plate, and collided with the North American...
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    |journal= (help) Tanaka; Kepezhinskas; Miyashita; Reuber (1994). Early Arc Plutonic Rocks in the Olyutor Range, Northeastern Kamchatka, Russia. 29th International...
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