intrusive rocks in a sentence
Examples
- It occurs in pegmatites where it can form crystals up to long and in the contact metamorphic zone between limestone and various intrusive rocks.
- Scientific journals have studied the volcanic geology of the area, identifying the rocks of volcanic appearance as constituted of subvolcanic intrusive rock bodies.
- Its surface waters tend to be very low in alkalinity, which is caused by its underlain intrusive rocks of the Cretaceous Idaho Batholith.
- Intrusive rocks can become brecciated in appearance by multiple stages of intrusion, especially if fresh magma is intruded into partly consolidated or solidified magma.
- Igneous rocks are those formed by magma cooling and solidifying, while intrusive rocks are igneous rocks that form beneath the Earth's surface.
- The subvolcanic and intrusive rocks of the central Kaiserstuhl are plutonic equivalents of the erupted material ( essexite, carbonatite and coarse-granular phonolite ).
- Several local terms which do not carry official status with the International Union of Geological Sciences have been used for different varieties of the intrusive rocks.
- The northern parts of the Armorican Massif have less intrusive rocks, although a small zone in the northwest of Brittany ( L�on Zone ) forms an exception.
- Hydrothermal circulation at mid-ocean ridges can, however, bring intrusive rocks into the shallow mantle, and it is possibly a good candidate in this case.
- "' Intrusive rock "'forms within Earth's Sierra Nevada in California, are formed mostly from large granite ( or related rock ) intrusions.