Rapakivi granite is an igneous intrusive rock and variant of alkali feldspar granite. It is characterized by large, rounded crystals of orthoclase each...
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geologists Luxullianite – Rare type of granite Orbicular granite Quartz monzonite – Type of igneous rock Rapakivi granite – Type of igneous rock in alkali feldspar...
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emplaced during the Svecokarelian orogeny. Following this last orogeny rapakivi granites intruded various locations of Finland during the Mesoproterozoic and...
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analogue considered to theoretically represent the Earth's upper mantle Rapakivi granite – Type of igneous rock in alkali feldspar Rhomb porphyry – Textural...
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often occurs in association with norite, anorthosite, charnockite and rapakivi granite in Proterozoic metamorphic belts. It is characterised by the presence...
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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):...
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of felsic or intermediate rock types, such as granite, quartz monzonite, or diorite (see also granite dome). Although they may appear uniform, batholiths...
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(derivative of word pulkka) puukko - traditional Finnish sheath knife Rapakivi granite - a granite rock in petrology taimen - a species of salmon living in Siberia...
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occurrences at Vaasa, on the west coast of Finland. Bohus granite Jotnian Rapakivi granite Satakunta dyke swarms Öhman, T.; Preeden, U. (2013). "Shock...
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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,...
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recognized as metamorphic Iron-rich felsic rocks, including monzonite and rapakivi granite Iron-rich diorite, gabbro, and norite Leucocratic mafic rocks such...
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place during the Svecokarelian orogeny. Following this last orogeny Rapakivi granites intruded various locations of Finland during the Mesoproterozoic and...
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to metamorphism. Stratigraphically, Jotnian sediments overlie the rapakivi granites and other igneous and metamorphic rocks and are often intruded by...
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are filled with sediments. Between Pleistocene sediments and crushed rapakivi granite bedrock there is a layer of Paleozoic (Ordovician) limestones. This...
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Sandia Mountains, New Mexico, USA Pichor, Bundelkhand Massif, India Rapakivi granite Partial melting Lindh, Anders; Näsström, Helena (September 2006). "Crystallization...
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of highly metamorphosed sedimentary and volcanic rocks intruded by rapakivi granite, dating to around 1.54–1.67 billion years ago. Following this orogeny...
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are coarse-grained granodiorites and granites, which are often porphyry and weathered in places. Rapakivi granite rock has also been found in the vicinity...
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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...
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(Sprattus sprattus) Regional flower Yellow Iris (Iris pseudacorus) Regional stone Rapakivi granite Regional lake Lake Vuohijärvi Website www.kymenlaakso.fi...
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period fluctuations between low- and high-temperature compositions. In rapakivi granites, phenocrysts of orthoclase are enveloped within rinds of sodic plagioclase...
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geological complex located in Uruguay made up of various plutons including rapakivi granite and quartz syenite. The batholith is of Late Paleoproterozoic age....
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subdued terrain already during the Late Mesoproterozoic when the rapakivi granites intruded. List of shields and cratons Cratonic sequence "Definition...
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subdued terrain already during the late Mesoproterozoic, when the rapakivi granites intruded. Further erosion made the terrain rather flat at the time...
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at the contact. At depth they exhibit a coarse-grained rapakivi texture. The subvolcanic granites are the most widespread igneous rocks and were thought...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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studied the Alnö Complex, Norra Kärr Alkaline Complex and various Rapakivi granites. In a 1948 publication on Alnö, von Eckermann correctly claimed a...
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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...
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