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The Problem of Batholithic Intrusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

W. A. Richardson
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Speculation as to the causes of the great intrusions known as batholiths is coeval with petrology as a science. Daly says that batholiths are “the least understood of all the intrusive bodies. If they were truly understood there would be no ‘problem’ of the igneous rocks”.1 This, no doubt, puts the matter too strongly, but there is nevertheless much truth in the statement, and the “problem” is of the greatest importance in petrogenic theory.

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Research Article
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Geological Magazine , Volume 60 , Issue 3 , March 1923 , pp. 121 - 128
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1923

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page 121 note 1 Daly, R. A., Igneous Rocks and their Origin, New York, 1914, p. 89.Google Scholar

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page 122 note 2 For general summaries see: Harker, A., Natural History of the Igneous Rocks, Lond., 1909, chap, iii;Google Scholar Barrell, J., “Marysville Mining District (Montana)”: U.S. Geol. Surv., prof, paper, No. 57, 1907, p. 151 et seq.Google Scholar

page 124 note 1 Op. cit.

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page 127 note 2 Daly, op. cit., pp. 91–2.