Sentence examples for * batholith in from inspiring English sources

The Underground Research Laboratory URLL) is situated in the Lac du Bonnet granite batholith, in southeastern Manitoba, Canada.

The Mt. Abu batholith in NW India comprises variably deformed porphyritic, granophyric to medium-grained granites and granite gneisses.

Values are also above the regional background over the batholith in the East Grampians of Scotland.

It is based on published palaeoclimate and topographic heat flow corrections at six borehole sites across Great Britain (Westaway and Younger 2013), over the East Grampians batholith in eastern Scotland (Busby et al. 2015) and over the southwestern England granites (Beamish and Busby 2016).

Dacites and andesites were erupted above an evolving batholith in the first interval.

In this paper we present geochemical and geochronological data of Late Cretaceous to Early Paleocene (~ 64 Ma) granitic rocks of the Guyong and Husa batholiths in the Tengchong Block.

Using thermochronological data and thermokinematic modeling, we constrain the timing of late Miocene exhumation of the northern portion of the Gongga batholith, located in Southeast Tibet along the Xianshuihe Fault (XF).

As thrusting occurred in an eastward direction, huge granitic batholiths formed in what is now the Sierra Nevada range along the California-Nevada border.

The central part of the Cordilleras in Canada and Alaska was accreted piecemeal, also between about 180 and 140 million years ago, but there is disagreement as to whether the western part was accreted in the same interval or between about 110 and 70 million years ago (the two parts are separated by the deeply eroded granitic batholiths exposed in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia).

The mountains are underlain by the massive granitic rocks of the Coast Range Batholith, successively intruded in various stages during the orogeny of the late Mesozoic to early Cenozoic (about 100 to 50 million years ago).

They are intruded by rhyolitic and mafic dykes; the latter also mark the terminal magmatic phase in this batholith.