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pluton::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | batholite, batholith, plutonic rock |
| Type of | igneous rock |
| Has types | granite |
| Derivation | plutonic |
Examples of pluton
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Magma often collects in magma chambers that may feed a volcano or turn into a pluton.
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A phacolith is a pluton parallel to the bedding plane or foliation of folded country rock.
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These methods can also be used to determine ages of pluton emplacement.
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These are in turn intruded by igneous dykes arranged radially around the Cheviot pluton.
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The second, major pluton emplacement phase lasted from about 120 million to 80 million years ago during the Cretaceous.
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More specifically, it is a typically lens-shaped pluton that occupies either the crest of an anticline or the trough of a syncline.
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Mount McKinley is a granitic pluton.
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There are two known processes by which magma ceases to exist, by volcanic eruption or by crystallization within the crust or mantle to form a pluton.
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The north end of the island is an unfoliated calc-alkaline pluton of the Bordeaux Diorite Complex group consisting of diorite, tonalite, and granodiorite.
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- Batholith: large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth
- A pluton in geology is an intrusive igneous rock (called a plutonic rock) body that crystallized from magma slowly cooling below the surface of the Earth. Plutons include batholiths, dikes, sills, laccoliths, lopoliths, and other igneous bodies. ...
- A plutoid is a trans-Neptunian dwarf planet. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) developed this category of astronomical objects as a consequence of its 2006 resolution defining the word "planet". ...
- Pluton is a system of deep space communications and a planetary radar. It was built near Yevpatoria in 1960, and consists of at at least three antennas. Three of them are of the ADU-1000 design, an assembly of eight mirrors, each with diameter of 16 meters. ...
- The Pluton missile was a French nuclear-armed short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) system launched from a transporter erector launcher (TEL) platform mounted on an AMX 30 tank chassis. It was designed to provide the tactical part of French nuclear deterrence during the Cold War.
- A body of igneous rock formed beneath the surface of the earth by consolidation of magma
- A large igneous intrusion formed at great depth in the crust.
- An intrusive rock, as distinguished from the preexisting country rock that surrounds it.
- Landform. A mass of volcanic rock that pushes towards the surface of the earth, but does not break through, and cools slowly underground. The result often is a coarse-grained granitic rock.
