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85 relations: Achala Batholith, Alaska, Ancient Rome, Antioquia Batholith, Bahia, Baja California Peninsula, Bald Rock Dome, Bhongir, Boulder Batholith, Buoyancy, California, Canada, Cerro Aspero Batholith, Chambers-Strathy Batholith, Chilliwack batholith, Coast Mountains, Coast Range Arc, Coastal Batholith of central Chile, Coastal Batholith of Peru, Colangüil Batholith, Continental crust, Cordillera Blanca Batholith, Cornubian batholith, Country rock (geology), Crust (geology), Crystal structure, Diapir, Dike (geology), Diorite, Donegal batholith, Elqui-Limarí Batholith, Enchanted Rock, Erosion, Exfoliation joint, Felsic, Gangdese batholith, Geology of Andorra, Granite, Granite dome, Greenland, Guiana Shield, Half Dome, Hook granite massif, Idaho Batholith, Igneous rock, Illescas Batholith, India, Intermediate composition, Intrusive rock, Kenosha Pass, ..., Laccolith, Ljusdal Batholith, Magma, Mass wasting, Moruya, New South Wales, Mount Kosciuszko, North Patagonian Batholith, North Pennine Batholith, Orogeny, Panguipulli Batholith, Partial melting, Peninsular Ranges, Pikes Peak granite, Pluto (mythology), Pluton, Quartz monzonite, Ruby Mountains, Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada Batholith, Sill (geology), South Mountain (Nova Scotia), South Patagonian Batholith, Southern California, Stock (geology), Stone Mountain, Subduction, Telangana, The Baths, Transscandinavian Igneous Belt, Vicuña Mackenna Batholith, Volcanic plug, Volcano, Wyoming batholith, Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Valley. Expand index (35 more) »
Achala Batholith
The Achala Batholith (batolito de Achala) is a group of plutons in the Sierras de Córdoba in central Argentina.
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Alaska
Alaska (Alax̂sxax̂) is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.
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Ancient Rome
In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.
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Antioquia Batholith
The Antioquia Batholith (Batolito Antioqueño, Ksta, Kqd, K2ba) is a cluster of plutons located in and named after Antioquia, Colombia.
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Bahia
Bahia (locally) is one of the 26 states of Brazil and is located in the northeastern part of the country on the Atlantic coast.
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Baja California Peninsula
The Baja California Peninsula (Lower California Peninsula, Península de Baja California) is a peninsula in Northwestern Mexico.
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Bald Rock Dome
Bald Rock is a granite batholith located in Butte County, California, in the Plumas National Forest.
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Bhongir
Bhongir is a town and District Headquarter of Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district of the Indian state of Telangana.
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Boulder Batholith
The Boulder Batholith is a relatively small batholith in southwestern Montana, United States, exposed at the surface as granite (more specifically quartz monzonite) and serving as the host rock for rich mineralized deposits at Butte and other locations.
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Buoyancy
In physics, buoyancy or upthrust, is an upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of an immersed object.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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Cerro Aspero Batholith
Cerro Aspero Batholith (batolito de Cerro Aspero) is a group pf plutons in southern Sierras Pampeanas in central Argentina.
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Chambers-Strathy Batholith
The Chambers-Strathy Batholith, also called the Strathy-Chambers Batholith, is a large granitoid batholith complex in the Temagami region of Northeastern Ontario, Canada.
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Chilliwack batholith
The Chilliwack Batholith is a large batholith that forms much of the North Cascades in southwestern British Columbia, Canada and the U.S. state of Washington.
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Coast Mountains
The Coast Mountains are a major mountain range in the Pacific Coast Ranges of western North America, extending from southwestern Yukon through the Alaska Panhandle and virtually all of the Coast of British Columbia south to the Fraser River.
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Coast Range Arc
The Coast Range Arc was a large volcanic arc system, extending from northern Washington through British Columbia and the Alaska Panhandle to southwestern Yukon.
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Coastal Batholith of central Chile
The Coastal Batholith of central Chile is a group of plutons in the Chilean Coast Range of Central Chile appearing contiguously from 33° S to 38° S. At a latitude of 40° S an outlying group of plutons of the batholith appear in a more eastward position in the Andes.
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Coastal Batholith of Peru
The Coastal Batholith of Peru (Batolito costero peruano) is a group of hundred if not thousands of individual plutons that crop out near or at the coast of Peru.
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Colangüil Batholith
The Colangüil Batholith is a group of plutons in western Argentina between the latitudes of 29 and 31° S. The plutons of the batholith were emplaced and cooled in the Late Paleozoic and the Triassic.
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Continental crust
Continental crust is the layer of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks that forms the continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores, known as continental shelves.
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Cordillera Blanca Batholith
The Cordillera Blanca Batholith (Batolito de la Cordillera Blanca) is an extensive group of individual plutons that crop out near or at Cordillera Blanca, Peru.
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Cornubian batholith
The Cornubian batholith is a large mass of granite rock, formed about 280 million years ago, which lies beneath much of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain.
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Country rock (geology)
Country rock is a geological term meaning the rock native to an area.
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Crust (geology)
In geology, the crust is the outermost solid shell of a rocky planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite.
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Crystal structure
In crystallography, crystal structure is a description of the ordered arrangement of atoms, ions or molecules in a crystalline material.
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Diapir
A diapir (French, from Greek diapeirein, to pierce through) is a type of geologic intrusion in which a more mobile and ductily deformable material is forced into brittle overlying rocks.
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Dike (geology)
A dike or dyke, in geological usage, is a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture in a pre-existing rock body.
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Diorite
Diorite is an intrusive igneous rock composed principally of the silicate minerals plagioclase feldspar (typically andesine), biotite, hornblende, and/or pyroxene.
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Donegal batholith
The Donegal batholith is a large granitic igneous intrusion of early Devonian age that outcrops in County Donegal in Ireland.
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Elqui-Limarí Batholith
The Elqui-Limarí Batholith is a group of plutons in the Andes of Chile and Argentina between the latitudes of 28 and 30° S. The plutons of the batholith were emplaced and cooled in the Late Paleozoic and the earliest Mesozoic.
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Enchanted Rock
Enchanted Rock (16710 Ranch Rd 965, Fredericksburg TX) is a pink granite mountain located in the Llano Uplift approximately north of Fredericksburg, Texas and south of Llano, Texas, United States.
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Erosion
In earth science, erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transport it to another location (not to be confused with weathering which involves no movement).
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Exfoliation joint
Exfoliation joints or sheet joints are surface-parallel fracture systems in rock, and often leading to erosion of concentric slabs.
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Felsic
In geology, felsic refers to igneous rocks that are relatively rich in elements that form feldspar and quartz.
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Gangdese batholith
The Gangdese batholith or Gangdese volcanic arc is a major geological structure in the south of the Lhasa terrane in Tibet, to the north of the Himalayas.
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Geology of Andorra
Andorra is located in the Axial Zone of the central Pyrenees mountain range in south western Europe, which means that it has intensely folded and thrusted rocks formed when the Iberian peninsula was rotated onto the European continent.
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Granite
Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.
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Granite dome
Granite domes are domical hills composed of granite with bare rock exposed over most of the surface.
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Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is an autonomous constituent country within the Kingdom of Denmark between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
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Guiana Shield
The Guiana Shield is one of the three cratons of the South American Plate.
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Half Dome
Half Dome is a granite dome at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park, California.
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Hook granite massif
The Hook granite massif is a large formation in central Zambia formed around 550 million years ago during the Pan-African orogeny.
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Idaho Batholith
The Idaho Batholith is a granitic and granodioritic batholith of Cretaceous-Paleogene age that covers approximately of central Idaho and adjacent Montana.
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Igneous rock
Igneous rock (derived from the Latin word ignis meaning fire), or magmatic rock, is one of the three main rock types, the others being sedimentary and metamorphic.
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Illescas Batholith
Illescas Batholith is a geological complex located in Uruguay made up of various plutons including rapakivi granite and quartz syenite.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Intermediate composition
In igneous petrology an intermediate composition refers to the chemical composition of a rock that has 52-63 wt% SiO2 being an intermediate between felsic and mafic compositions.
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Intrusive rock
Intrusive rock (also called plutonic rock) is formed when magma crystallizes and solidifies underground to form intrusions, for example plutons, batholiths, dikes, sills, laccoliths, and volcanic necks.
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Kenosha Pass
Kenosha Pass, elevation, is a high mountain pass located in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado in the United States.
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Laccolith
A laccolith is a sheet intrusion (or concordant pluton) that has been injected between two layers of sedimentary rock.
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Ljusdal Batholith
The Ljusdal Batholith is a group of plutons in central Sweden formed during the Svecofennian orogeny.
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Magma
Magma (from Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma) meaning "thick unguent") is a mixture of molten or semi-molten rock, volatiles and solids that is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and is expected to exist on other terrestrial planets and some natural satellites.
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Mass wasting
Mass wasting, also known as slope movement or mass movement, is the geomorphic process by which soil, sand, regolith, and rock move downslope typically as a solid, continuous or discontinuous mass, largely under the force of gravity, but frequently with characteristics of a flow as in debris flows and mudflows.
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Moruya, New South Wales
Moruya is a town in New South Wales, Australia, situated on the Moruya River, on the far south coast situated on the Princes Highway south of Sydney and from Canberra.
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Mount Kosciuszko
Mount Kosciuszko is Australia’s highest mountain, at 2,228 metres (7,310 ft) above sea level.
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North Patagonian Batholith
The North Patagonian Batholith (Batolito Nor-Patagónico) is a series of igneous plutons in the Patagonian Andes of Argentina and Chile.
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North Pennine Batholith
The North Pennine Batholith, also known as the Weardale Granite is a granitic batholith lying under northeast England, emplaced around 400 million years ago in the early Devonian.
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Orogeny
An orogeny is an event that leads to a large structural deformation of the Earth's lithosphere (crust and uppermost mantle) due to the interaction between plate tectonics.
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Panguipulli Batholith
The Panguipulli Batholith is a granitic batholith of Jurassic age located in the Andes around Panguipulli Lake in southern Chile.
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Partial melting
Partial melting occurs when only a portion of a solid is melted.
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Peninsular Ranges
The Peninsular Ranges (also called the Lower California province) are a group of mountain ranges that stretch from Southern California to the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula; they are part of the North American Coast Ranges, which run along the Pacific Coast from Alaska to Mexico.
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Pikes Peak granite
The Pikes Peak granite is a 1.08 billion year old widespread geologic formation found in the central part of the Front Range of Colorado.
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Pluto (mythology)
Pluto (Latin: Plūtō; Πλούτων) was the ruler of the underworld in classical mythology.
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Pluton
In geology, a pluton is a body of intrusive igneous rock (called a plutonic rock) that is crystallized from magma slowly cooling below the surface of the Earth.
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Quartz monzonite
Quartz monzonite or adamellite is an intrusive, felsic, igneous rock that has an approximately equal proportion of orthoclase and plagioclase feldspars.
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Ruby Mountains
The Ruby Mountains are a mountain range, primarily located within Elko County with a small extension into White Pine County, in Nevada, United States.
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Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
The Sierra Nevada (snowy saw range) is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin.
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Sierra Nevada Batholith
The Sierra Nevada Batholith is a large batholith which forms the core of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California, exposed at the surface as granite.
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Sill (geology)
In geology, a sill is a tabular sheet intrusion that has intruded between older layers of sedimentary rock, beds of volcanic lava or tuff, or along the direction of foliation in metamorphic rock.
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South Mountain (Nova Scotia)
South Mountain (French: Montagne du Sud; Gaelic: Beinn a Deas) is a Canadian range on the mainland portion of Nova Scotia.
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South Patagonian Batholith
The South Patagonian Batholith (Batolito Sur-Patagónico) is group of plutons in southwestern Patagonia.
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Southern California
Southern California (colloquially known as SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises California's southernmost counties.
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Stock (geology)
In geology, a stock is an igneous intrusion that has a surface exposure of less than, differing from batholiths only in being smaller.
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Stone Mountain
Stone Mountain is a quartz monzonite dome monadnock and the site of Stone Mountain Park near Stone Mountain, Georgia.
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Subduction
Subduction is a geological process that takes place at convergent boundaries of tectonic plates where one plate moves under another and is forced or sinks due to gravity into the mantle.
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Telangana
Telangana is a state in the south of India.
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The Baths
The Baths are a beach area on the island of Virgin Gorda among the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.
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Transscandinavian Igneous Belt
The Transscandinavian Igneous Belt (Transskandinaviska magmatiska bältet), abbreviated TIB, is one of the major lithological units of the Baltic Shield.
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Vicuña Mackenna Batholith
The Vicuña Mackenna Batholith (Batolito Vicuña Mackenna) is a group of plutons in the Chilean Coast Range of northern Chile.
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Volcanic plug
A volcanic plug, also called a volcanic neck or lava neck, is a volcanic object created when magma hardens within a vent on an active volcano.
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Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
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Wyoming batholith
The Wyoming batholith is a granite batholith of Neoarchean origin —which forms the eroded core of the Granite and Laramie Mountains in central Wyoming.
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Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park is an American national park lying in the western Sierra Nevada of California.
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Yosemite Valley
Yosemite Valley is a glacial valley in Yosemite National Park in the western Sierra Nevada mountains of Central California.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batholith
