PLUTON

Pluton

A pluton in geology is a body of intrusive igneous rock that is crystallized from magma slowly cooling below the surface of the Earth. Plutons include batholiths, stocks, dikes, sills, laccoliths, lopoliths, and other igneous bodies. In practice, "pluton" usually refers to a distinctive mass of igneous rock, typically several kilometers in dimension, without a tabular shape like those of dikes and sills. Batholiths commonly are aggregations of plutons. Examples of plutons include Cardinal Peak and Mount Kinabalu.

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pluton

Noun

  1. A body of igneous rock formed beneath the surface of the earth by consolidation of magma


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