How To Use Plutonic rock In A Sentence
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The magmatic fabric of a plutonic rock forms during a relatively short time interval, after ascent and before final crystallization of magma.
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The Median Tectonic Zone, which separates the Western and Eastern Provinces, is a narrow belt of Late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic plutonic rocks with minor volcanic and metasedimentary units.
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Plutonic rocks can be dense, silica-poor and dark in colour, like most cumulates, or silica-rich and pale in colour like the melt remaining after cumulate formation.
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The mountain ranges (sky islands) are a geologic mix of Tertiary volcanic and intrusive granitic rocks, Paleozoic sedimentary layers, and some Precambrian granitic plutonic rocks.
Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)
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Nine samples of plutonic rocks were selected for dating.
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On mafic plutonic rocks, they are mostly Mollic and Typic Haploxeralfs and Typic Rhodoxeralfs.
Coastal Hills (Bailey)
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This subsection contains mainly Mesozoic granitic and mafic plutonic rocks, Jura-Triassic volcanic rocks, Pre-Cretaceous metamorphic rocks, and Eocene and Oligocene marine and nonmarine and Miocene marine sedimentary rocks.
Coastal Hills (Bailey)
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This subsection contains mainly Mesozoic granitic and mafic plutonic rocks, Jura-Triassic volcanic rocks, Pre-Cretaceous metamorphic rocks, and Eocene and Oligocene marine and nonmarine and Miocene marine sedimentary rocks.
Coastal Hills (Bailey)
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Granite and granodiorite are examples of silica-rich plutonic rocks.
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A mineral consisting of titanium dioxide in crystalline form; occurs in metamorphic and plutonic rocks and is a major source of titanium.
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The present study was conducted entirely in U2 plutonic rocks, which, in the Bonifacio area, are locally covered by Miocene transgressive marine sediments.
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These sediments were afterwards converted into the first rocks of the so-called stratified or sedimentary series, as contrasted with the crystalline or plutonic rocks like the original mass of the earth and the kinds forced to the surface by volcanic eruptions.
The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope
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On mafic plutonic rocks, they are mostly Mollic and Typic Haploxeralfs and Typic Rhodoxeralfs.
Coastal Hills (Bailey)
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The granite hills, here as throughout Midian, were veined and dyked with two different classes of plutonic rock.
The Land of Midian
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The presence of plutonic rocks here suggests that these regions too have been highly extended.
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However, Lower Cretaceous plutonic rocks have not been found in outcrop.
