monzonite in a sentence
Examples
- This conglomerate is composed of a grey feldspathic sand matrix and well-rounded pebbles and cobbles of quartzite, granite, felsite, and quartz monzonite.
- A hydrothermal system generated by intrusion of monzonite, naturally upgraded mineral grades ( caused by one of the many deformations occurring in its geological history ).
- The "'Guilford Quartz Monzonite "'is a Silurian or Ordovician quartz monzonite pluton in intrude mainly through the Wissahickon Formation ( gneiss ).
- The "'Guilford Quartz Monzonite "'is a Silurian or Ordovician quartz monzonite pluton in intrude mainly through the Wissahickon Formation ( gneiss ).
- Magma mixing also tends to occur at deeper levels in the crust and is considered one of the primary mechanisms for forming intermediate rocks such as monzonite and andesite.
- Lone Peak consists almost entirely of quartz monzonite ( a granitoid, or granite-like ) rock of the 30.5 million year old Little Cottonwood Stock.
- The McDougall Brook Granite formation consists mostly of porphyritic granite, a borderline feldspar ( sometimes quartz ) porphyry, and minor amounts of fine-grained quartz monzonite.
- The walls are quartz monzonite ( which has the appearance of granite ) from Little Cottonwood Canyon, located twenty miles ( 32 km ) southeast of the temple site.
- The Salt Lake Temple of the LDS Church was built of blocks of quartz monzonite which Mormon pioneers quarried from the Little Cottonwood Stock near the mouth of the canyon.
- About nine miles from the junction is Cimarron Canyon State Park, where you can stand at the base of a palisades sill-- a spectacularly sheer monzonite cliff face.