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    The Cornubian batholith is a large mass of granite rock, formed about 280 million years ago, which lies beneath much of Cornwall and Devon in the south-western...
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    assembled over millions of years by amalgamation from small magma chambers?, GSA Today: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 4–11 Idaho Batholith The Cornubian Batholith...
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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 longest...
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  • current area of Devon and Cornwall. The Cornubian Massif is underpinned by the extensive granitic Cornubian batholith that was intruded into Variscan thrust...
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    Cornwall, England, is dominated by its granite backbone, part of the Cornubian batholith, formed during the Variscan orogeny. Around this is an extensive...
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    of several granite plutons in Cornwall that make up part of the Cornubian batholith (see also Geology of Cornwall). In prehistoric times men settled...
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    Map showing the main granite outcrops of the Cornubian batholith in southwest England and the gravity anomaly associated with it...
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    composed of granite rock of Early Permian age, an exposed part of the Cornubian batholith. The Irish Sea Glacier terminated just to the north of the Isles...
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    the granite intrusion of Dartmoor in central Devon, part of the Cornubian batholith forming the 'spine' of the southwestern peninsula. There are blocks...
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    one of five granite plutons in Cornwall that make up part of the Cornubian batholith. The intrusion dates from the Cisuralian epoch, the earliest part...
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    UK Connemara, Ireland County Donegal, Ireland South West England (Cornubian batholith and Haig Fras granite), UK Askrigg Block (Yorkshire Dales), UK Alston...
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  • region in southwestern England Cornubia, a geologists' name for the Cornubian batholith, the granite massif of Devon and Cornwall in England Cornubia, Queensland...
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    one of five granite plutons in Cornwall that make up part of the Cornubian batholith (see also Geology of Cornwall). Carnmenellis was also the name of...
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    Hampshire Basin North Downs Weald South Downs London-Brabant Massif Cornubian batholith – Early Permian intrusion in the South West of England, forming moors...
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  • regional metamorphism of the sediment followed by the intrusion of the Cornubian batholith and the subsequent contact metamorphism created the metamorphic rocks...
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    consists of small-grained granite which is part of the larger Cornubian batholith. The batholith formed during the Early Permian period, from about 300 to...
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    contains fragments of detritus dating to the 280 million year old Cornubian batholith. This site is a steeply sloping area of grassland, scrub and woodland...
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    within the range of intrusion ages for the granites that make up the Cornubian batholith. Although the two intrusions have the same trend and are of similar...
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  • intrudes the rocks of the Brendon (formerly Greystone) Formation. The Cornubian batholith was intruded into the midst of the folded and faulted sedimentary...
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  • gold were emplaced by fluids associated with the emplacement of the Cornubian batholith of which the Dartmoor granite is the largest exposed part. Silver...
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    the granite intrusions in Cornwall that form part of the larger Cornubian batholith) underlies the parish and the area was formerly an important source...
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    war":Memories site: Stithians. 3K Facilities company website The Cornubian Batholith of South West England 50°10′04″N 5°10′22″W / 50.1679°N 5.1727°W...
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    of the site are underlain by the Land's End granite, part of the Cornubian batholith. Zones within the granite, altered by kaolinisation, have been extensively...
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    surface boundary of the so-called "Land's End Granite", part of the Cornubian batholith which dates from 279 to 274 myr. However, the intrusion of the granite...
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    contains fragments of detritus dating to the 280 million year old Cornubian batholith. Cow Wood and Harry's Wood Y 75.5 hectares (187 acres) YES Haywards...
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  • derived from the nearby Tregonning-Godolphin granite, part of the Cornubian batholith. There were four main lodes at the mine, two of which were crossed...
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    within the hillfort. Tregonning Hill is a detached outcrop of the Cornubian batholith. The granite has been altered by kaolinization resulting in china...
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  • granite batholith that exhibited enhanced permeability due to its intersection with the Porthtowan fault zone. The Cornubian granite batholith stretches...
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    Eathorne (Soprano)". Bach Cantatas Website. Retrieved 18 October 2017. Cornubian and Redruth Times, 30 September 1898. Cornish Post and Mining News, 29...
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    western part of the town. Some mineralisation associated with the Cornubian granite batholith that intrudes into much of the peninsular is found in the western...
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