Large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth.
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Examples for "pluton "
1 UPDATE: Ron found a paper discussing a ~1 million year-old exhumed pluton in Japan (see full citation in comments below).
2 This made me wonder... just how quickly can a zircon go from crystallization in an arc pluton to being a grain of sediment?
3 An 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.
4 PLUTON , Pluto, god of the nether world, the abode of the dead.
5 The Pluton also was disabled, and headed for the shore.
1 Up past pillars of batholith is the path he has made, and abutting it tarpaulin bivouacs.
2 We climbed and circled the hoary igneous batholith like it was David's Jerusalem or the very Ka'bah.
3 Info Part of the Boulder Batholith where you will also find excellent bouldering.
4 The 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.
1 Plutonic rocks , separation of constituent parts of, by gravity.
2 Apparent non-separation of the elements of plutonic rocks .
3 I 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 .
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