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• The composition of displaced terranes ranges from that of typical oceanic crust to significantly less dense granitic rock with clear continental affinities.
• It slopes southwest from the watershed between the Nile and Congo rivers, part of an ancient peneplain interrupted by mostly granitic inselbergs, threaded by gallery forests, with large marshland depressions. Garamba National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo
• The compaction foliation and jointing in the red-gray and reddish ash-flow tuff to the right is roughly parallel to jointing in the granitic rock on the left, and roughly parallel to the contact. Geology on the Road: Highway 50 #1
• The phenomenon of granitic spherical weathering is frequently encountered in railway engineering which traverses granite areas.
• Metamorphic aureoles around the granitic rocks are estimated to extend on the order of 1 km from the granitic rocks.
• In the Tintic district of central Utah, Paleozoic limestones have been intruded by monzonite (an acid granitic or porphyritic igneous rock), and covered by surface flows, the flows for the most part having been removed by subsequent erosion. The Economic Aspect of Geology
• The mountain ranges (sky islands) are a geologic mix of Tertiary volcanic and intrusive granitic rocks, Paleozoic sedimentary layers, and some Precambrian granitic plutonic rocks. Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)
• We've known for decades that homes on or near the Reading Prong made up of granitic gneiss, granodiorite, and quartzite had elevated levels of radon. You can stop envying your neighbor's granite countertops now.
• Many of the gneisses in such areas were largely of mixed aspect, with bands of metamorphic rock interleaved with others of more granitic nature.
• Between the heavy clays and blue mud of the mangrove swamps and the granite and sandstone of the mountain ranges, the undulating rises are mainly composed of red clay, sandstones, shales, and granitic and feldspathic rocks, with extensive deposits of laterite in red clays on the surface. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither