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Monzonite
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Monzonite is an igneous intrusive rock, formed by slow cooling of underground magma that has a moderate silica content and is enriched in alkali metal oxides. Monzonite is composed mostly of plagioclase and alkali feldspar.
Monzonite specimen from Rock Library (NASA JPL)
Monzonite specimen from Rock Library (NASA JPL)
Photomicrograph of thin section of monzonite (in plane polarised light)
Photomicrograph of thin section of monzonite (in plane polarised light)
The Notch Peak monzonite intrusion in Utah inter-fingers (partly as a dike) with highly metamorphosed Cambrian carbonate host rocks
The Notch Peak monzonite intrusion in Utah inter-fingers (partly as a dike) with highly metamorphosed Cambrian carbonate host rocks
Intrusive rock
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Intrusive rock is formed when magma penetrates existing rock, crystallizes, and solidifies underground to form intrusions, such as batholiths, dikes, sills, laccoliths, and volcanic necks.
Devils Tower, United States, an igneous intrusion exposed when the surrounding softer rock eroded away
Devils Tower, United States, an igneous intrusion exposed when the surrounding softer rock eroded away
An intrusion (pink Notch Peak monzonite) inter-fingers (partly as a dike) with highly metamorphosed black-and-white-striped host rock (Cambrian carbon
An intrusion (pink Notch Peak monzonite) inter-fingers (partly as a dike) with highly metamorphosed black-and-white-striped host rock (Cambrian carbonate rocks) near Notch Peak, House Range, Utah, United States
Dark dikes intruded into the country rock, Baranof Island, Alaska, United States
Dark dikes intruded into the country rock, Baranof Island, Alaska, United States