• The Coastal Batholith of Peru (Spanish: Batolito costero peruano) is a group of hundreds, if not thousands, of individual plutons that crop out near or...
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    A batholith (from Ancient Greek bathos 'depth', and lithos 'rock') is a large mass of intrusive igneous rock (also called plutonic rock), larger than...
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  • Coastal Batholith may refer to: Coastal Batholith of Peru formed in the Mesozoic Coastal Batholith of central Chile formed in the Paleozoic This disambiguation...
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    their lower contacts are very rarely exposed. For example, the Coastal Batholith of Peru is 1,100 kilometers (680 mi) long and 50 kilometers (31 mi) wide...
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    The 1600 kilometer Coastal Batholith of Peru formed in an ensialic marginal basin in the early Cretaceous, with the emplacement of pillow lavas, gabbro...
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  • Cordillera Blanca Batholith, Peru". Journal of Petrology. 37 (6): 1491–1521. doi:10.1093/petrology/37.6.1491. Casma Group Coastal Batholith of Peru v t e...
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    They are formed by hundred of plutons that directly related to subduction. For example, Coastal Batholith of Peru consists of 7–16% gabbro and diorite,...
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    Andes (redirect from Andes of Peru)
    height of about 4,000 m (13,123 ft). The Andes extend from north to south through seven South American countries: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia...
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  • Casma Group (category Geologic formations of Peru)
    Phase of the Andean orogeny. The group is intruded by plutons of the Coastal Batholith of Peru. The Casma Group include the following lithologies: gypsum...
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  • (149-138 Ma) Remiendos Unit (133-128 Ma) Herradura Unit (108-98 Ma) Coastal Batholith of Peru Hervé, Miguel; Marinovic, Nicolas (1989). "Geocronología y evolución...
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    Sierra Vicuña Mackenna (category Landforms of Antofagasta Region)
    Mackenna Batholith Amiran, David H. K.; Wilson, Andrew Wilkins (1973). Coastal Deserts : Their Natural and Human Environments. University of Arizona Press...
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    Marañón fold and thrust belt (category Geology of Peru)
    of Late Eocene to Miocene age. The parts of the belt are intruded by plutons of the Coastal Batholith of Peru. There are various mineralizations of base...
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    Andean orogeny (category Geology of Peru)
    back-arc basins and the emplacement of large batholiths. This development is presumed to have been linked to the subduction of cold oceanic lithosphere. During...
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    Aruba (redirect from History of Aruba)
    landscapes. The northwestern region is primarily characterized by flat batholith landscapes. Notable landmarks here include the conical Hooiberg hill,...
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    national landscape also includes Bodmin Moor, an upland outcrop of the Cornubian batholith granite formation. The county contains many short rivers; the...
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    Chile Triple Junction (category Geology of Aysén Region)
    intruded by Cretaceous and Tertiary, acidic, I-type plutonic rocks of the Patagonian Batholith. In the southern-central Chilean margin, the sediment in the...
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    Blanco N (1997) The El Abra and Fortuna complexes: a porphyry copper batholith sinistrally displaced by the Falla Oeste. In: VIII Congresso Geológico...
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  • Chilenia (category Geology of Chile)
    an ancient microcontinent or terrane whose history affected many of the older rocks of central Chile and western Argentina. It was once separated by oceanic...
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  • Cuyania (category Geology of Chile)
    an ancient microcontinent or terrane whose history affected many of the older rocks of Cuyo in Argentina. It was separated by oceanic crust from the Chilenia...
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  • Pampia (category Geology of Argentina)
    the Pampean orogeny of late Proterozoic and early Cambrian. It was one of the first terranes to be amalgamated to the old cratons of the east, and was followed...
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    Coropuna (category Stratovolcanoes of Peru)
    Eocene) generated the Toquepala Formation and the Andean batholiths. Volcanic activity in southern Peru commenced about 13 million years ago in the Miocene...
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    Mount Hudson (category Mountains of Aysén Region)
    million years. Hudson rises from the Patagonian Batholith, a 1,000-kilometre (600 mi) long formation made up of intrusive rocks (diorite, gabbro, granite,...
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  • Chiloé Block (category Geology of Chile)
    Block or Chiloé Terrane is a geotectonic unit making up the basement of large parts of south-central Chile between 41° and 45°S. Due to its form, it is sometimes...
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  • following road construction and logging on noncohesive, granitic soils of the Idaho Batholith". Headwaters Hydrology, American Water Resources Association: 501–510...
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