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    Migmatite is a composite rock found in medium and high-grade metamorphic environments, commonly within Precambrian cratonic blocks. It consists of two...
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    Gneiss (section Migmatite)
    deforms around the more resistant feldspar grains to produce this texture. Migmatite is a gneiss consisting of two or more distinct rock types, one of which...
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    Migmatittodden (English: Migmatite Head) is the southern headland of Phippsøya, one of Sjuøyane, north of Nordaustlandet, Svalbard, Norway. Norwegian...
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    calcium and iron in granulite residues. This may be the origin of migmatites. A migmatite consists of dark, refractory rock (the melanosome) that is permeated...
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    of the Satakunta region. Tampere's bedrock consists of mica schist and migmatite, and its building stone deposits are diverse: in addition to the traditional...
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    the Sudetes and are among the oldest in Europe. Other deposits include migmatite rocks, to a lesser extent also amphibolite, serpentinite, granulite, and...
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    most dominant rock unit in the area and includes granites, gneisses and migmatites, while the soils of Bangalore consist of red laterite and red, fine loamy...
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  • gneiss Marble – Type of metamorphic rock – a metamorphosed limestone Migmatite – Mixture of metamorphic rock and igneous rock Mylonite – Metamorphic...
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    include amphibolite, greenschist, phyllite, marble, serpentinite, eclogite, migmatite, skarn, granulite, mylonite, and slate. The basic classification can be...
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    products are high to ultrahigh temperature granulites and their associated migmatite and granites in collisional orogens, with possible emplacement of metamorphic...
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    chemical reaction between intrusion and country rock, and often have broad migmatite zones. Foliations in the intrusion and the surrounding country rock are...
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    geologists Metamorphic rock – Rock that was subjected to heat and pressure Migmatite – Mixture of metamorphic rock and igneous rock Petrology – Branch of geology...
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    ; Inglis, J. D. (2012). "Separating metamorphic events in the Fosdick migmatite-granite complex, West Antarctica: POLYMETAMORPHISM IN THE FOSDICK MOUNTAINS"...
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    and metamorphic rocks that include biotite–muscovite–feldspar–quartz migmatites and garnet–mica schists. The dismemberment and subsidence of continental...
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    consists of two rock units: granitoid plutons (2.8–2.55 Ga) and gneiss and migmatite. The granitoid rocks are mainly potassic granite and were derived principally...
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    the Costa Brava in the winter (Costa Brava means "wild coast"), so the migmatites and schists are battered and eroded by the Tramuntana wind which whips...
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    Migmatite geology at Maigetter Peak...
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  • devitrified Dendritic texture; dendrites Diatextite; see also schlieren and migmatite Embayed minerals; see igneous texture Equigranular Euhedral Eutaxitic...
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    W. R. - Saltvik: Studies from an Aland Parish. Sederholm, J. J. - On Migmatites and Associated Pre-Cambrian Rocks of Southwestern Finland, Part III: The...
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    Soukka and Suomenoja. Main rock types in the Espoo bedrock include gneiss, migmatite, granite, gabbro, amphibolite and mica schist. Rare orbicular granite...
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    (sandstones, clays, limestones); metamorphic rocks (schists, gneisses, migmatites); igneous rocks (granites, basalts, gabbros, peridotites); and mineralized...
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    Western-Moravian part of Moldanubian Zone. The primary composition of the range is migmatite, granite and gneis. Soil horizon is mainly fluvisol and cambisol. The...
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    of the basement are gneiss (ortho- and paragneisses, in the south also migmatites and diatexites, for example on the Schauinsland and Kandel). These gneisses...
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    Variscan-faulted rocks of the Massif Central begin with Cambrian/Ordovician migmatite. It is near the southern end of the old province of Berry. The House of...
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    deposited strata and subject to overlying stress) and partially melted migmatite (a metamorphic-texture rock frequently found in domes due to the typical...
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    to about 1,080 °C (1,980 °F) for wet basalt at atmospheric pressure. Migmatites are rocks formed at this upper limit, which contains pods and veins of...
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    thermal gradients of >30 °C/km. There is a general lack of ophiolites, migmatites and abyssal sediments. Typical examples are all circum-Pacific orogens...
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  • most dominant rock unit in the area and includes granites, gneisses and migmatites, while the soils of Bangalore consist of red laterite and red, fine loamy...
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    of the Nigerian Province are split up by thrust and shear zones. The Migmatite-Gneiss Complex covers half of Nigeria's surface area and encompasses Archean...
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    crystallized from a primary magma. The interpretation of leucosomes of migmatites as primary magmas is contradicted by zircon data, which suggests leucosomes...
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