The greater or less pressure under which merely softened or wholly liquid fluids are solidified, appears to constitute the main difference in the formation of Plutonic and volcanic rocks.
Among the most striking proofs of the transformation of rocks by Plutonic action, we must place the belemites in the schists of Nuffenen (in the Alpine valley of Eginen and in the Gries-glaciers), and the belemnites found by M.
Plutonic rocks at the period of their eruption, as well as on the formation of gneiss from schist, through the action of granite and of the substances upheaved with it, to be found in the 'Abhandl.
If we pass from these general considerations to individual examples, we find that schist is converted, by the vicinity of Plutonic erupted rocks, into a bluish-black, glistening roofing slate.
We may, to a certain extent, trace in these numbers the portions of the Earth in which the Plutonic forces were most intensely manifested in the interior by the upheaval of continental masses.
There are no reasons why these Plutonicforces may not, in future ages, add new mountain systems to those which Elie de Beaumont has shown to be of such different ages, and inclined in such different directions.
Gaseous emanations rising from very unequal depths, and therefore conveying substances differing in their chemical nature, imparted greater activity to the Plutonic processes of formation and transformation.
Rocks of eruption', which have issued from the interior of the earth either in a state of fusion from volcanic action, or in a more or less soft, viscous condition, from Plutonic action.
The intrusion may be essentially laccolitic in character, or it may represent the plutonic basis of a volcano.
The Monteregian Hills are a series of ancient plutonic intrusions.
The man who will turn his back on love, and upon all the fruitful it, and will set himself single-heartedly to gather gold in an exultant dream of wielding itsPlutonic powers, will find the treasure yielding quickly to his touch.
And now it will be asked how does Hagen know all about the Plutonic empire; and why was he able to tell Gunther about Brynhild and Siegfried, and to explain to Siegfried the trick of the Tarnhelm.
All such sweet littlenesses must be left to the humble stupid giants to make their toil sweet to them; and the god must, after all, pay for Olympian power the same price the dwarf has paid for Plutonic power.
He has neither the cunning nor the ambition to establish the Plutonic empire with it.
His aim in life is to gain possession of the helmet, the ring, and the treasure, and through them to obtain thatPlutonic mastery of the world under the beginnings of which he himself writhed during Alberic's brief reign.
They forget that they have poisoned that desire in him by their mockery and denial of it, and that he now knows that life will give him nothing that he cannot wrest from it by the Plutonic power.
Not until he forswears love will he stretch out his hand to the gold, and found the Plutonic empire for himself.
They are what are called fissure-veins, owing their origin to cracks or fractures in the rocks that have been filled up with mineral substances through chemical, thermal, aqueous, or plutonic agencies.
Origin of mineral veins: their connection with intrusions of Plutonic rocks.
Hence at the abrupt terminations of some of the chains in the district of Saffragam, plutonic rocks are seen mingled with the dislocated gneiss.
The plutonic rocks of Ceylon are but slightly metalliferous, and hitherto their veins and deposits have been but imperfectly examined.
So far from this being the case, however, we meet with distinct evidences in the later chapters of geological history of plutonic awakenings much more violent than those recorded at its commencement.
Those that have solidified beneath the surface are known as intrusive rocks, or if the cooling has taken place slowly at great depth, as plutonic rocks, e.
The plutonic rocks are always thoroughly crystallized, and they are generally coarser grained than the volcanic rocks.
A Big Glacial Bowlder ofPlutonic Igneous Rock Carried Miles from Its Parent Ledge by the Ice Sheet Which Passed Over the Adirondack Mountains During the Ice Age.
The plutonic masses are represented by the granite of Ben Cruachan, by the diorite of Gleann Domhainn, and by the kentallenite (a basic rock related to the monxonites), near Ballachulish.
The acid and basic plutonic rocks (gabbros and granophyres) of Tertiary time occur in Ardnamurchan.
Naumann, of Leipsic, the Plutonic theory, because it goes down into the unexplored depths of the earth.
The tectonic theory is of geological origin, and properly supplanted the older Plutonic theory of Humboldt, which was only an unverified supposition.
I have no objection to the refined plutonic view, as capable of explaining many existing phenomena; indeed, you must be aware that I have myself had recourse to it.
In the plutonicsystem there is one simple and constant order assumed, which may be supposed eternal.
In the Plutonic system, there is one simple and constant order assumed, which may be supposed eternal.
The science which treats of phenomena due to plutonic action, as in volcanoes, hot springs, etc.
The name Plutonic or Massive rocks is, however, now almost universally substituted for that of Primary.
I have already spoken of the innumerable chimneys perforating the Azoic beds, narrow outlets of Plutonic rock, protruding through the earliest strata.
A wide field of investigation still remains to be explored by the chemist and the geologist together, in the mineralogical character of the Plutonic rocks, which differs greatly in the different periods.
The precipice walled gateway they had curtained was filled with a Plutonic glare as though it opened into the incandescent heart of a volcano.
Werner, which referred the formation of all rocks and strata to the agency of water; -- opposed to the Plutonic theory.
Defn: Relating to what is now called the Plutonic theory of the earth, first advanced by Dr.
Defn: The science which treats of phenomena due to plutonic action, as in volcanoes, hot springs, etc.
The term is sometimes used as equivalent to plutonic rocks.
I walked over the mountain, and quickly lost the marl in masses of plutonic rocks that had been upheaved and entirely occupied the surface.
The soil of the grass-lands is of an igneous clay formation--magnesian clay, formed by disintegration of the plutonic rocks, whose upheaval in two successive stages brought the Nicobars into existence.
The eruption of these plutonic masses appears therefore to fall in a time when the formation of the marine deposits was partially completed, partially still in progress.
It is covered by a plastic white or yellowish clay and clay marl, with intervening beds of quartz sandstone, formed, like the clay, by the disintegration of the plutonic rock.
The close association of such deposits with plutonic igneous rocks, and the characteristic mineral associations (see pp.
The accessible deposits of the deep zone are associated with plutonicigneous rocks which have been deeply eroded, and not with surface lavas.
Plutonic judges, Plutonic Tinville; encircled nine times with Styx and Lethe, with Fire-Phlegethon and Cocytus, named of Lamentation!
There is still a wide field of investigation to be explored by the chemist and the geologist together, in the mineralogical character of the Plutonic rocks, which differs greatly in the different periods.
The plutonic leucite-bearing rocks are leucite-syenite and missourite.
Leucite also is rare in plutonic rocks and dike rocks, but leucite-syenite and leucite-tinguaite bear witness to the possibility that it may occur in this manner.
Accepting the theory that volcanic orplutonic earthquakes have probably produced the larger number of all lode systems,--and such we have in this case, it will be necessary to find whence came the requisite force.
The eruption of sand, ashes, pumice, and lava, continued till the end of August, when the Plutonic drama concluded with a violent earthquake.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plutonic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
