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  • noun Plural form of pluton.

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  • Some proposed creating a new definition - "plutons" - to describe these distant, tiny celestial bodies.

    Archive 2006-08-01 2006

  • Some proposed creating a new definition - "plutons" - to describe these distant, tiny celestial bodies.

    my very easy memory jingle seems useful naming... ?! 2006

  • Feldspar is mined from large granite bodies (called plutons by geologists), from pegmatites (formed when the last fluid stages of a crystallizing granite becomes concentrated in small liquid and vapor-rich pockets that allow the growth of extremely large crystals), and from sands composed mostly of feldspar.

    Feldspar 2008

  • -category of planets henceforth to be known as "plutons".

    When the fate of Pluto hangs in the balance, who do you call? 2006

  • The Northern Outer Piedmont is composed of mostly gneiss and schist rock intruded by granitic plutons, and veneered with saprolite.

    Ecoregions of North Carolina and South Carolina (EPA) 2009

  • This magma then migrates upward through the crust forming plutons and volcanoes.

    Mountain 2008

  • The Northern Outer Piedmont (45f) is underlain mostly by deformed, deeply weathered gneissic rock that is intruded by plutons and veneered with saprolite; it is lithologically distinct from the Carolina Slate Belt (45c) and the sedimentary rock of the Southeastern Plains (65) and Triassic Uplands (45g).

    Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008

  • It is intruded by plutons and is veneered by clay-rich weathering products (i.e. saprolite).

    Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008

  • Accumulations of volcanic rock develop along convergent boundaries where subduction is causing magma plumes to form plutons and volcanoes.

    Mountain 2008

  • Another consequence of the orogenic stage is regional metamorphism and the incursion of magma plumes, plutons, and volcanoes into the growing mountain range.

    Mountain 2008

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