Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large mass of igneous rock that has melted and intruded surrounding strata at great depths.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large mass of deep-seated igneous rock which may be exposed by erosion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geology A large
irregular mass ofintrusive igneous rock that hasmelted orforced itself intosurrounding strata .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth
Etymologies
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Examples
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East of the batholith is a basin-and-range area consisting of mountains, alluvial fans at their bases, and floodplains along the streams draining the valleys.
Middle Rocky Mountain Steppe - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey) 2009
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The Wolf River batholith-which stretches from Portage County through Waupaca, Shawano, Menominee, Langlade and Oconto counties-and the Puritan batholith, which is way up north in Sawyer, Bayfield,
Express Milwaukee 2009
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Her education, week after week, consisted of mindless memorization of big words like "batholith" and "saprophyte" - words that an average Ph.D. scientist wouldn't know.
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Nominally, this large group effort involving over 50 scientists and grad students is for “a seismic refraction and wide-angle reflection survey across the Coast Mountains batholith of British Columbia, Canada.”
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Nominally, this large group effort involving over 50 scientists and grad students is for “a seismic refraction and wide-angle reflection survey across the Coast Mountains batholith of British Columbia, Canada.”
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Nominally, this large group effort involving over 50 scientists and grad students is for “a seismic refraction and wide-angle reflection survey across the Coast Mountains batholith of British Columbia, Canada.”
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Nominally, this large group effort involving over 50 scientists and grad students is for “a seismic refraction and wide-angle reflection survey across the Coast Mountains batholith of British Columbia, Canada.”
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The batholith is deeply dissected, with a relief greater than 3,000 ft, and its granite is heavily weathered over large areas.
Middle Rocky Mountain Steppe - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey) 2009
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It gets its name from the granitic mass (batholith) that is exposed in the basin, granite that has been dated at one billion years old.
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That was also one of the allegations made by Ignmar Lee when he sabotaged the batholith project.
More Anti-Science Eco-Activism in British Columbia - The Panda's Thumb 2009
skipvia commented on the word batholith
The largest batholith in the world is the Cascade Mountain Range in WA/BC.
Not to be confused with that sea-monster thing.
October 14, 2007