diorites in English
noun
1
a speckled, coarse-grained igneous rock consisting essentially of plagioclase, feldspar, and hornblende or other mafic minerals.
The thrust sheet overlying the Delaney Dome Formation is composed of the basic Ballyconneely Amphibolite and interbanded quartz diorite and hornblende gneiss that intrude the Dalradian sediments.
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1. Whereas most of the complex consists of salic rocks (syenites, nepheline syenites and alkali granites) a spectrum of intermediate rock types (monzonites, monzodiorites and alkali diorites) grades to alkali gabbros.
2. Major-element analyses of 497 composite samples of Batholithic rocks (quartz diorites, granodiorites, and quartz monzonites) from the northern Peninsular Ranges and Transverse Ranges Provinces, southern California, form basis for a mixing model that accounts for most of the compositional variation in the rocks