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The quartz percentage among felsic minerals in TTG rocks is usually larger than 20% but less than 60%. [1] In tonalite and trondhjemite, more than 90% of the feldspars are plagioclase, while in granodiorite, this number is between 65% and 90%. [1] Trondhjemite is a special kind of tonalite, with most of the plagioclase in the rock being ...
Trondhjemite is an orthoclase-deficient variety of sodium-rich tonalite with minor biotite as the only mafic mineral, named after Norway's third largest city, Trondheim. [6] Tonalites, together with granodiorites, are characteristic of calc-alkaline batholiths formed above subduction zones. [7]
Trondhjemite is a leucocratic (light-colored) intrusive igneous rock. It is a variety of tonalite in which the plagioclase is mostly in the form of oligoclase . [ 1 ] Trondhjemites that occur in the oceanic crust or in ophiolites are usually called plagiogranites .
Diorite is an intrusive igneous rock composed principally of the silicate minerals plagioclase feldspar (typically andesine), biotite, hornblende, and sometimes pyroxene.The chemical composition of diorite is intermediate, between that of mafic gabbro and felsic granite.
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Monzonite is found in association with gabbro and granodiorite in the Khankandi pluton in the Alborz Mountains of Iran. The monzonite likely formed during the collision that closed the Tethys Ocean, from partial melting of upper mantle that had previously been altered by fluids released from a subducting ocean crust slab.
Under IUGS guidelines, rhyodacites are not formally defined in either the QAPF classification, used to classify igneous rocks by their mineral content, or the TAS classification, used to classify volcanic rocks chemically. However, the IUGS allows the use of the term to describe rocks close to the boundary between the rhyolite and dacite fields ...
Late-stage charnockite dykes cutting anorthosite, Rogaland, Norway Job Charnock's Mausoleum at St John's Church compound, Kolkata. Charnockite (/ ˈ tʃ ɑːr n ə k aɪ t /) is any orthopyroxene-bearing quartz-feldspar rock formed at high temperature and pressure, commonly found in granulite facies’ metamorphic regions, sensu stricto as an endmember of the charnockite series.