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    Rapakivi granite is an igneous intrusive rock and variant of alkali feldspar granite. It is characterized by large, rounded crystals of orthoclase each...
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    emplaced during the Svecokarelian orogeny. Following this last orogeny rapakivi granites intruded various locations of Finland during the Mesoproterozoic...
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    type of granite Orbicular granite Quartz monzonite – Type of igneous rock Rapakivi granite – Type of igneous rock in alkali feldspar Subsolvus – Two feldspar...
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  • analogue considered to theoretically represent the Earth's upper mantle Rapakivi granite – Type of igneous rock in alkali feldspar Rhomb porphyry – Textural...
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    gneisses and other metamorphic rocks with volcanic rock protoliths and rapakivi granites. These rocks are much older than the rest (Paleoproterozoic age)...
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    consists of highly metamorphosed sedimentary and volcanic rocks intruded by rapakivi granite, dating to around 1.54–1.67 billion years ago. Following this orogeny...
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  • often occurs in association with norite, anorthosite, charnockite and rapakivi granite in Proterozoic metamorphic belts. It is characterised by the presence...
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    to place during the Svecokarelian orogeny. Following this last orogeny Rapakivi granites intruded various locations of Finland during the Mesoproterozoic...
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  • Archived 2020-10-12 at the Wayback Machine Ketilidian structure and the rapakivi suite between Lindenow Fjord and Kap Farvel, South-East Greenland v t e...
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  • (derivative of word pulkka) puukko - traditional Finnish sheath knife Rapakivi granite - a granite rock in petrology taimen - a species of salmon living...
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