Aplite (/ˈæplaɪt/) is an intrusive igneous rock that has a granitic composition. Aplites are fine-grained to aphanitic (without grains visible to the naked...

Anorthosite – Mafic intrusive igneous rock composed predominantly of plagioclase Aplite – Fine-grained intrusive igneous rock type similar to granite Basalt – Magnesium-...

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from mountain-range-sized batholiths to thin veinlike fracture fillings of aplite or pegmatite. Batholith: a large irregular discordant intrusion Chonolith:...

another of which has the appearance of an intrusive rock such pegmatite, aplite, or granite the (leucosome). The rock may also contain a melanosome of mafic...

orientation and a dip of 60° to the west. The pegmatite dyke include sections of aplite and graphic granite. The surrounding host rock is "gabbro-like greenstone"...

with orogenic mountain ranges. Small dikes of granitic composition called aplites are often associated with the margins of granitic intrusions. In some locations...

perthite, oligoclase, biotite and accessory apatite and zircon; veins of aplite and pegmatite present locally. Granite was first recorded at Cape Woolamai...

Micropterus nigricans (Cuvier, 1828) Synonyms Labrus salmoides Lacepède, 1802 Aplites salmoides (Lacepède, 1802) Grystes salmoides (Lacepède, 1802) Huro salmoides...

slender prismatic crystals are common in a fine-grained granite called aplite, often forming radial daisy-like patterns. Tourmaline is distinguished by...

Micropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 1802 Synonyms Aplesion Rafinesque, 1820 Aplites Rafinesque, 1820 Calliurus Rafinesque, 1819 Dioplites Rafinesque, 1820...

solidified magma. This may be seen in many granite intrusions where later aplite veins form a late-stage stockwork through earlier phases of the granite...

granodiorite, as well as inclusions of diabase, quartz diorite, granite, aplite, and granophyre. Ashfall layers have been eroded by pyroclastic flows and...

use in industry. Spodumene occurs in lithium-rich granite pegmatites and aplites. Associated minerals include: quartz, albite, petalite, eucryptite, lepidolite...

monzonite and granodiorite with local, minor, scattered bodies of granite, aplite, diorite and gabbro. These pendants are part of a discontinuous, 140 kilometres...

Basement Rocks contain Early Paleoproterozoic granite, granitic pegmatite, aplite, and granodiorite that have intruded these metamorphic rocks, and also,...

felsic intrusives. They range from porphyritic alkaline rhyolite to alkaline aplite to porphyritic alkaline granite. In map view, the igneous bodies of the...

occurs as creamy to white anhedral to subhedral grains in pegmatite and aplite pods or lenses in a peralkaline igneous intrusion. It was discovered in...

Aplite zone at the Harding Mine...

rocks Igneous rock Adakite Andesite Alkali feldspar granite Anorthosite Aplite Basalt Basaltic trachyandesite Mugearite Shoshonite Basanite Blairmorite...

products, machinery, project cargo, refractory, vehicles, pharmaceuticals, aplite and livestock. The port used to provide service to northern Europe, the...

now disused Meldon Aplite Quarry has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest because of its exposures of aplite and other rocks. The...

Piégut-Pluviers-Granodiorite is crosscut by many grey, in some places pink microgranitic aplite dikes. These usually upright dikes can occasionally attain one kilometer...

granodiorite, biotite granite, biotite and muscovite bearing granite, aplite, granitic aplite, granitic pegmatite Monastyri complex Crops out chiefly in the...

crystals. Aplites are commonly present. These may cut across the pegmatite, but also form zones or irregular patches around coarser material. The aplites are...

magnesium chloride. 7 14% All other minerals, including, but not limited to, aplite, barite, borax, calcium carbonates, diatomaceous earth, dolomite, feldspar...

Granodiorite is noted for its dihedrals, plus for having dikes. Dikes of aplite and pegmatite commonly intrude on Sentinel Granodiorite. Dikes vary in width...

type of lustre Amygdaloidal Anhedral Antitaxial veins Aphanitic Aplitic; aplite Augen textured gneiss Axiolitic texture Botryoidal Brecciated Bedding fissile;...

in shape are said to be chonoliths.   Spring Gulch chonolith composed of aplite, in Elko County in Nevada, US. The outcrops of the Spring Gulch reveal a...

feature in the sediment-covered areas of Saudi Arabia. Its olivine basalt and aplite dikes formed during the Miocene, Pliocene and early Quaternary, spanning...