igneous complex

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• Bushveld Igneous Complex — The Bushveld Igneous Complex (or BIC) is a large igneous intrusion within the Earth s crust which has been tilted and eroded and now outcrops around what appears to be the edge of a great geological basin. Located in South Africa, the BIC… …   Wikipedia

• Stillwater igneous complex — The Stillwater igneous complex is a large ultramafic to mafic layered intrusion located in southern Montana in Stillwater, Sweet Grass and Park Counties. The complex is exposed across 30 miles (48 km) of the north flank of the Beartooth Mountain… …   Wikipedia

• Magnet Cove igneous complex — The Magnet Cove igneous complex is a small alkalic ring complex lying to the west of the town of Magnet Cove in Hot Spring County, Arkansas.[1] It and the adjacent town are so named due to the existence of magnetite and the terrain being a cove,… …   Wikipedia

• Metchosin Igneous Complex — The Metchosin Igneous Complex is an ophiolite sequence in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, located at the southern end of Vancouver Island. It is the northernmost expression of the Crescent Terrane and consists of three rock units,… …   Wikipedia

• Sudbury Igneous Complex — The Sudbury Igneous Complex is a 1844 million year old impact melt sheet in Greater Sudbury, Northern Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Sudbury Basin impact structure, and is classified as a lopolith.References*… …   Wikipedia

• Lac des Iles igneous complex — The Lac des Iles igneous complex of northwestern Ontario is a layered gabbroic intrusion which is the host for the largest palladium orebody in Canada.http://www.infomine.com/minesite/minesite.asp?site=lacdesiles Infomine report on Lac des Iles]… …   Wikipedia

• Sudbury Igneous Complex — Radaraufnahme des Sudbury Beckens …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• igneous rock — Any of various crystalline or glassy, noncrystalline rocks formed by the cooling and solidification of molten earth material (magma). Igneous rocks comprise one of the three principal classes of rocks, the others being metamorphic and sedimentary …   Universalium

• Igneous differentiation — In geology, igneous differentiation is an umbrella term for the various processes by which magmas undergo bulk chemical change during the partial melting process, cooling, emplacement or eruption. Contents 1 Definitions 1.1 Primary melts 1.2… …   Wikipedia

• Large igneous province — Only a few of the largest Large Igneous Provinces are indicated (by the dark purple areas) on this geological map, which depicts crustal geologic provinces as seen in seismic refraction data. A Large Igneous Province (LIP) is an extremely large… …   Wikipedia

• Large Igneous Province — Karoo Basalt, eine magmatische Großprovinz in Südafrika Eine Magmatische Großprovinz, mit dem englischen Ausdruck meist Large Igneous Province (LIP) genannt, ist ein Gebiet der Erdkruste, das sehr große Mengen magmatischer Gesteine enthält (bis… …   Deutsch Wikipedia