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Many of the gneisses in such areas were largely of mixed aspect, with bands of metamorphic rock interleaved with others of more granitic nature.
Metamorphic aureoles around the granitic rocks are estimated to extend on the order of 1 km from the granitic rocks.
There are no mafic dykes or intrusions of similar age to the granitic rocks that could imply contemporaneous mafic magmatism.
In contrast, granitic pegmatites are found in the Zomba Mountain and Malosa Mountain.
These domes are composed of pelitic schists and gneisses folded around a core of K-feldspar granite and granitic gneiss.
This magmatism is typically of gabbroic to granitic composition and also shows evidence of mixed sedimentary and mantle-like sources.
In Yakushima, granitic and sedimentary boulders are cracked polygonally on their surface.
Numerous undated granitic and dioritic plutons intrude the Palaeozoic rocks and form large areas of Karlik Tagh and Barkol Tagh.
Is there any petrologic or petrographic evidence that granitic magmas have been extracted in timescales of only decades or centuries?
It has also been found as a constituent of granites and in granitic pegmatites.
In the central part of the intrusion, some small granitic aplite dykes intrude the syenitic rocks.
They are characteristic of the granitic uplands or moors of south-western England and of other Hercynian massifs in western and central Europe.
We agree with Leong that a complex basement composed of both ophiolitic and granitic crust underlies much of Sabah.
The pennywort, also called navelwort, is commonly found on European granitic lands, especially in wall and rock crevices.
Garnets are common accessory minerals in granitic pegmatites and are typically members of the spessartine-almandine solid-solution series.
This mineralogy is consistent with derivation from granitic or acidic high-grade metamorphic rocks.
Interestingly, high-temperature melting experiments have shown similar peritectic assemblages coexisting with granitic melt.
They probably represent the time of igneous emplacement of the granitic source rocks.
Most of the granitic plutons that make up this part of the batholith are characterized by upright magmatic-state planar fabrics trending NE with shallow lineations.
We interpret these grains as xenocrysts from an older source terrain from which the granitic protolith of sample MS 3 may have been derived by anatectic melting.
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This species occurs in the granitic regions, where R. hirsutum does not grow.
They are also met with in the granitic detritus of cairngorm in Aberdeenshire.
The original home of cassiterite is in veins closely related to granitic rocks.
As far as St. Florent the prevailing rocks are micaceous and beyond granitic.
Near the ores there are likely to be granitic rocks, which, like the ores, seem to be segregations from the norite magma.
The zirconium silicate, zircon, is a fairly common accessory constituent of granitic rocks and pegmatite veins.
In their natures was a granitic outcrop that defied failure.
There can be little doubt but that they are of granitic structure.
The only difference is, that here the granitic hills are a little bolder.
The geological formation is Devonian and granitic, with laterites.
They are the immutable, granitic pudding-heads of the world.
The drive will include the tall granitic hills of Ramanagara and the evergreen forests of Coorg.
Graphite veins can be found in crystalline marbleized limestones associated with granitic and gneissic rocks.
She crossed her arms and sat back in her chair with a granitic finality.
AngloGold drilled a deep hole at the Hatter prospect, east of the Hollister open pit, and penetrated lower Paleozoic rocks and a granitic intrusive of possible Mesozoic age.
The geology of the study sites consists predominantly of Paleozoic granitic intrusions with detrital sedimentary rocks and low grade metamorphosed sediments.
While the granitic summits of the Rocky Mountains are bleak and bare, many of the inferior ridges are scantily clothed with scrubbed pines, oaks, cedar, and furze.
In about three hours the Victoria was crossing with extreme rapidity an expanse of stony country, with ranges of lofty, naked mountains of granitic formation at the base.
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