Aplite (/ˈæplaɪt/) is an intrusive igneous rock that has a granitic composition. Aplites are fine-grained to aphanitic (without grains visible to the naked...
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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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renamed Radisson Rewards. In August 2018, Radisson Hotel Group was sold to Aplite Holdings AB, a consortium led by a Chinese state-owned hospitality company...
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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...
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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:...
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Micropterus nigricans (Cuvier, 1828) Synonyms Labrus salmoides Lacepède, 1802 Aplites salmoides (Lacepède, 1802) Grystes salmoides (Lacepède, 1802) Huro salmoides...
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Basement Rocks contain Early Paleoproterozoic granite, granitic pegmatite, aplite, and granodiorite that have intruded these metamorphic rocks, and also,...
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perthite, oligoclase, biotite and accessory apatite and zircon; veins of aplite and pegmatite present locally. Granite was first recorded at Cape Woolamai...
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with orogenic mountain ranges. Small dikes of granitic composition called aplites are often associated with the margins of granitic intrusions. In some locations...
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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"...
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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...
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Micropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 1802 Synonyms Aplesion Rafinesque, 1820 Aplites Rafinesque, 1820 Calliurus Rafinesque, 1819 Dioplites Rafinesque, 1820...
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granodiorite, as well as inclusions of diabase, quartz diorite, granite, aplite, and granophyre. Ashfall layers have been eroded by pyroclastic flows and...
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use in industry. Spodumene occurs in lithium-rich granite pegmatites and aplites. Associated minerals include: quartz, albite, petalite, eucryptite, lepidolite...
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slender prismatic crystals are common in a fine-grained granite called aplite, often forming radial daisy-like patterns. Tourmaline is distinguished by...
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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...
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monzonite and granodiorite with local, minor, scattered bodies of granite, aplite, diorite and gabbro. These pendants are part of a discontinuous, 140 kilometres...
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felsic intrusives. They range from porphyritic alkaline rhyolite to alkaline aplite to porphyritic alkaline granite. In map view, the igneous bodies of the...
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Aplite zone at the Harding Mine...
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rocks Igneous rock Adakite Andesite Alkali feldspar granite Anorthosite Aplite Basalt Basaltic trachyandesite Mugearite Shoshonite Basanite Blairmorite...
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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...
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products, machinery, project cargo, refractory, vehicles, pharmaceuticals, aplite and livestock. The port used to provide service to northern Europe, the...
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Piégut-Pluviers Granodiorite (section Aplites)
Piégut-Pluviers-Granodiorite is crosscut by many grey, in some places pink microgranitic aplite dikes. These usually upright dikes can occasionally attain one kilometer...
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crystals. Aplites are commonly present. These may cut across the pegmatite, but also form zones or irregular patches around coarser material. The aplites are...
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granodiorite, biotite granite, biotite and muscovite bearing granite, aplite, granitic aplite, granitic pegmatite Monastyri complex Crops out chiefly in the...
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type of lustre Amygdaloidal Anhedral Antitaxial veins Aphanitic Aplitic; aplite Augen textured gneiss Axiolitic texture Botryoidal Brecciated Bedding fissile;...
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Gothic style building. It is constructed of brick faced with coursed rubble aplite trimmed in cast stone. The front elevation features a recessed entry with...
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magnesium chloride. 7 14% All other minerals, including, but not limited to, aplite, barite, borax, calcium carbonates, diatomaceous earth, dolomite, feldspar...
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Granodiorite is noted for its dihedrals, plus for having dikes. Dikes of aplite and pegmatite commonly intrude on Sentinel Granodiorite. Dikes vary in width...
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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...
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