Sentence examples for dominant rock from inspiring English sources

Weathering dominant (rock dominance) zone represents the intermediate region.

The album established Oasis as one of the era's dominant rock bands, although the era only lasted a few years.

The dominant rock constituting the composite volcanoes is andesite, but in some younger island arcs basalt tends to be more common, and in older volcanic areas dacite or rhyolite becomes prominent.

It seems anomalous to find diorite, the plutonic equivalent of andesite, in low abundance since andesite is the dominant rock type of the volcanoes that were above these batholiths.

Our geochemical data from major, trace and REE on representative samples of the dominant rock types from the Coorg Block corroborate an arc-related signature, with magma generation in a convergent margin setting.

The bedrock polygons were converted to a raster dataset with a cell size of 100 m (to ensure that small polygons were retained, and cell values corresponding to the mean value of the dominant rock type (the rock type with the largest combined area)).

In the Sierra Nevada batholith, the dominant rocks are quartz monzonite and granodiorite, with intrusions including quartz diorite in the far western rim and granite in the east.

For crystalline silicate rocks the dominant rocks of the "basement" crustal rocks the lower values are typical of ones rich in magnesium and iron (e.g., basalt and gabbro) and the higher values are typical of those rich in silica (quartz) and alumina (e.g., granite).

The dominant rocks within the belt are schists and gneisses produced by intense metamorphism of greywackes and minor amounts of other sedimentary rocks.

The first four cm of the dyke from the contact with serpentinite were altered to chlorite + hydrogrossular + clinopyroxene (Table 1; Gran-2a), and are followed by a six cm wide zone composed of wollastonite + vesuvianite + clinopyroxene + hydrogrossular (Table 1; Gran-2b, -2c), and a 35 cm wide zone of bleached, albite and K-feldspar-dominant rock.

As hardcore became the dominant punk rock style, many bands of the older California punk rock movement split up, although X went on to mainstream success and The Go-Go's, part of the Hollywood punk scene when they formed in 1978, adopted a pop sound and became major stars.