Large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth.
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Examples for "pluton"
Examples for "pluton"
1UPDATE: Ron found a paper discussing a ~1 million year-old exhumed pluton in Japan (see full citation in comments below).
2This made me wonder... just how quickly can a zircon go from crystallization in an arc pluton to being a grain of sediment?
3An hour west is the 6m-year-old Enchanted Rock, a massive, pale-pink granite pluton dome with peaks jutting out from a sandy valley of mesquite trees.
4PLUTON, Pluto, god of the nether world, the abode of the dead.
5The Pluton also was disabled, and headed for the shore.
1Up past pillars of batholith is the path he has made, and abutting it tarpaulin bivouacs.
2We climbed and circled the hoary igneous batholith like it was David's Jerusalem or the very Ka'bah.
3Info Part of the Boulder Batholith where you will also find excellent bouldering.
4The spires are part of the Golden Horn Batholith, notable for its multiple types of granite.
1"Pardon me," interrupted King Richard, "but Mr. Versál has already spoken of a 'batholite.'
2"And pray explain to me what is a batholite?"
3"It's the batholite," responded Cosmo, using exactly the same phrase that Professor Pludder had employed some months before.
1Plutonic rocks, separation of constituent parts of, by gravity.
2Apparent non-separation of the elements of plutonic rocks.
3I walked over the mountain, and quickly lost the marl in masses of plutonic rocks that had been upheaved and entirely occupied the surface.
4-Excavationand reduction of the ore.-Extractionof the gold.- "Mantos".-Originof mineral veins: their connection with intrusions of Plutonic rocks.
Translations for plutonic rock