These are characterised by soils varying from thick peat to bare granite and tonalite.
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The predominate rock type is a white, coarse-grained, foliated hornblende tonalite.
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It is paved with tonalite plates.
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Likewise, partial melting of eclogite has been modeled to produce tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite melts.
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The older one consists of granodiorite and adamellite with inclusions of tonalite, diorite, and gabbro.
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Migmatised igneous or lower-geochemical signatures and typically plagioclase dominant mineralogy forming monzonite, tonalite and granodiorite compositions.
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The most common rock types in plutons are granite, granodiorite, tonalite, monzonite, and quartz diorite.
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When a granitoid contains less than 10 % orthoclase, it is called tonalite; pyroxene and amphibole are common in tonalite.
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When a granitoid contains less than 10 % orthoclase, it is called tonalite; pyroxene and amphibole are common in tonalite.
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The schematic image above right shows two possible flat subduction mechanisms that could create the tonalite plutons seen in the greenstone belt.
