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Definition of Batholiths
1. batholith [n] - See also: batholith
Lexicographical Neighbors of Batholiths
Literary usage of Batholiths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Engineering Geology: By Heinrich Ries and Thomas L. Watson by Heinrich Ries, Thomas Leonard Watson (1914)
"batholiths. — These are huge masses of plutonic rock hundreds of miles in ...
batholiths are shown in the oldest regions of the earth, such as eastern ..."
2. Igneous Rocks and Their Origin by Reginald Aldworth Daly (1914)
"Gravitative Differentiation in Stocks and batholiths. ... Hence, hybrid rocks in
batholiths are rare and the homogeneity of their salic and ..."
3. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1905)
"batholiths—Granite as a type ; phenomena along line of Junction with Contiguous
Rocks ; Xenoliths ; speculations as to Assimilation of Rocks by Granite, ..."
4. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1906)
"Thus the extraordinary prevalence of foliation and schistosity, with interleaved
igneous layers and embedded batholiths, finds a seemingly consistent ..."
5. Bulletin by Geological Society of America (1906)
"It is possible, indeed, that at that time these two batholiths were part of one
huge mass of granodiorite which largely occupied the site of what is now the ..."
6. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1903)
"Had all these batholiths and dikes been involved in the folding of the sedimentary
rocks, they should be inclined at various angles, not a few being ..."
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