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"...

chlorite aggregate from massive quartz nodule associated with a petalite-rich aplite-pegmatite of the Barroso-Alvao pegmatite field, Northern Portugal. Neues...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Tech. Of the county's many rich mineral deposits, soapstone, sand, and aplite are at present of commercial importance. One of the county's largest manufactures...

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...

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

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

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

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

volcanic, as some have suggested, then the rock filling it (the "pseudo-aplite") is peculiar in the extreme. The pipe was mined in prehistoric times but...

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

area of Castro Laboreiro). Also, dykes and sills formed from quartz and aplite-pegmatites were mineralized resulting in tin, tungsten, molybdenum and gold...

leucocrate series (rich in the white minerals feldspar and quartz) such as aplites, porphyries and felsites. Biotite (usually phlogopite) and amphibole (usually...

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

Aplite zone at the Harding Mine...