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US
/pɫuˈtɑnɪk/
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ADJECTIVE
- of igneous rock that has solidified beneath the earth's surface; granite or diorite or gabbro
How To Use plutonic In A Sentence
- Whence followeup with end-speaking nots for yestures, plutonically pur — suant on briefest glimpse from gladrags, pretty Finnegans Wake
- The mountains are comprised of acid plutonic and volcanic rocks belonging to the Precambrian basement complex of the southern part of the Sinai Peninsula. Red Sea Nubo-Sindian tropical desert and semi-desert
- These metamorphic and plutonic igneous rocks form the uplifted core of the broadly anticlinal Owl Creek Mountains, a mountain range that formed during the Late Cretaceous.
- Granite and granodiorite are examples of silica-rich plutonic rocks.
- Although closely associated with plutonic igneous rocks, porphyry mineralization commonly encompasses large volumes of the surrounding host rocks to the intrusion.
- Immediately to the north and west of Great and Little bays, a granite intrusion of Exeter diorite comprising the Exeter pluton (i.e., part of the Hillsboro plutonic series) is present. Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Hampshire
- A mineral consisting of titanium dioxide in crystalline form; occurs in metamorphic and plutonic rocks and is a major source of titanium.
- Mount Mulanje consists of a cluster of coalescing plutonic intrusions of syenite, quartz-syenite and granite, which are uplifted and faulted. South Malawi montane forest-grassland mosaic
- Most of them want to be my "plutonic" friend but want nothing to do with me in the long term romantic dept. ......And THAT'S Why You're Single
- The present study was conducted entirely in U2 plutonic rocks, which, in the Bonifacio area, are locally covered by Miocene transgressive marine sediments.