Rapakivi granite is an igneous intrusive rock and variant of alkali feldspar granite. It is characterized by large, rounded crystals of orthoclase each...

geologists Luxullianite – Rare type of granite Orbicular granite Quartz monzonite – Type of igneous rock Rapakivi granite – Type of igneous rock in alkali feldspar...

emplaced during the Svecokarelian orogeny. Following this last orogeny rapakivi granites intruded various locations of Finland during the Mesoproterozoic and...

analogue considered to theoretically represent the Earth's upper mantle Rapakivi granite – Type of igneous rock in alkali feldspar Rhomb porphyry – Textural...

often occurs in association with norite, anorthosite, charnockite and rapakivi granite in Proterozoic metamorphic belts. It is characterised by the presence...

of felsic or intermediate rock types, such as granite, quartz monzonite, or diorite (see also granite dome). Although they may appear uniform, batholiths...

Pietilä. This example of organic building makes use of the Finnish rock Rapakivi granite and includes animal shapes and glacial patterns. Cloud Art Museum (2020):...

(derivative of word pulkka) puukko - traditional Finnish sheath knife Rapakivi granite - a granite rock in petrology taimen - a species of salmon living in Siberia...

occurrences at Vaasa, on the west coast of Finland. Bohus granite Jotnian Rapakivi granite Satakunta dyke swarms Öhman, T.; Preeden, U. (2013). "Shock...

for a total of approximately 13 metres (43 ft). For the pedestal, a rapakivi granite monolith boulder known as the Thunder Stone (Russian: Гром-камень,...

to metamorphism. Stratigraphically, Jotnian sediments overlie the rapakivi granites and other igneous and metamorphic rocks and are often intruded by...

recognized as metamorphic Iron-rich felsic rocks, including monzonite and rapakivi granite Iron-rich diorite, gabbro, and norite Leucocratic mafic rocks such...

place during the Svecokarelian orogeny. Following this last orogeny Rapakivi granites intruded various locations of Finland during the Mesoproterozoic and...

are filled with sediments. Between Pleistocene sediments and crushed rapakivi granite bedrock there is a layer of Paleozoic (Ordovician) limestones. This...

Sandia Mountains, New Mexico, USA Pichor, Bundelkhand Massif, India Rapakivi granite Partial melting Lindh, Anders; Näsström, Helena (September 2006). "Crystallization...

are coarse-grained granodiorites and granites, which are often porphyry and weathered in places. Rapakivi granite rock has also been found in the vicinity...

of highly metamorphosed sedimentary and volcanic rocks intruded by rapakivi granite, dating to around 1.54–1.67 billion years ago. Following this orogeny...

quartz, epidote, and calcite in veins in granite at Arendal in Norway. The distinctive texture of rapakivi granite is due to oligoclase rims on orthoclase...

period fluctuations between low- and high-temperature compositions. In rapakivi granites, phenocrysts of orthoclase are enveloped within rinds of sodic plagioclase...

(Sprattus sprattus) Regional flower Yellow Iris (Iris pseudacorus) Regional stone Rapakivi granite Regional lake Lake Vuohijärvi Website www.kymenlaakso.fi...

geological complex located in Uruguay made up of various plutons including rapakivi granite and quartz syenite. The batholith is of Late Paleoproterozoic age....

subdued terrain already during the Late Mesoproterozoic when the rapakivi granites intruded. List of shields and cratons Cratonic sequence "Definition...

subdued terrain already during the late Mesoproterozoic, when the rapakivi granites intruded. Further erosion made the terrain rather flat at the time...

at the contact. At depth they exhibit a coarse-grained rapakivi texture. The subvolcanic granites are the most widespread igneous rocks and were thought...

1127/ejm/7/1/0043. ISSN 0935-1221. Emslie, R. F. (1978). "Anorthosite massifs, rapakivi granites, and Late Proterozoic rifting of North America". Precambrian Research...

granites range between 1.58 and 1.4 million years ago and some are rapakivi granite associated with syenite, gabbro and anorthosite. Swarms of mafic dikes...

rock of the park is the granite of Nordingrå, the park belonging to the Nordingrå massif. It consists of a rapakivi granite, formed about 1500 million...

porphyries, which lie at the top the pile, share their origin with the rapakivi granites located nearby. An exhumed Subjotnian erosion surface is exposed on...

studied the Alnö Complex, Norra Kärr Alkaline Complex and various Rapakivi granites. In a 1948 publication on Alnö, von Eckermann correctly claimed a...

that break off the Rotes Kliff - such as flint, rhomb porphyry or Rapakivi granite - still enable an accurate determination of their origin to be made...