Shoshonite is a type of igneous rock. More specifically, it is a potassium-rich variety of basaltic trachyandesite, composed of olivine, augite and plagioclase...
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short descriptions of redirect targets Mugearite – Volcanic rock type Shoshonite – Potassium-rich variety of basaltic trachyandesite Basanite – Type of...
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potassium) is sometimes present in the deeper continental interior. The shoshonite series, which is extremely high in potassium, is rare but sometimes is...
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of the Shoshone that has yielded evidence of 9000 years of occupation Shoshonite "Little Big Horn College Library". Retrieved 2012-06-05. U.S. Geological...
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granite with biotite and granodiorite. The rocks belong to the high-K and shoshonite subseries of the calc-alkaline magma series. Some rocks do belong to the...
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potassic trachybasalt, shoshonite, or latite using the total alkali-silica diagram (see TAS classification), or as absarokite, shoshonite, or banakite using...
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levels of Tambora volcanics exceed 3 weight percent, placing them in the shoshonite range for alkaline series. Since the 1815 eruption, the lowermost portion...
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feldspar granite Anorthosite Aplite Basalt Basaltic trachyandesite Mugearite Shoshonite Basanite Blairmorite Boninite Carbonatite Charnockite Enderbite Dacite...
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Ladinian in the Southern Alps contain calc-alkaline rock while granite, shoshonite and monzonite intruded the Dolomites region into the Carnian. In fact...
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(Basaltic trachyandesite)—*Sodic and potassic variants are Mugearite and Shoshonite. S3 (Trachyandesite—*Sodic and potassic variants are Benmoreite and Latite...
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