Meaning of "plutonism" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF PLUTONISM

plutonism  [ˈpluːtɒnɪzəm]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PLUTONISM

Plutonism is a noun.

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WHAT DOES PLUTONISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Plutonism

Plutonism is the geologic theory that the rocks forming the Earth were formed in fire by volcanic activity, with a continuing gradual process of weathering and erosion wearing away rocks, which were then deposited on the sea bed, re-formed into layers of sedimentary rock by heat and pressure, and raised again. It proposed that basalt was solidified molten magma. It was named after Pluto, the classical ruler of the underworld, or alternatively after Vulcan, the ancient Roman god of fire and volcanoes. The theory was first proposed before 1750, by Abbé Anton Moro who had studied volcanic islands, and was subsequently developed by James Hutton as part of his Theory of the Earth published in 1788. It contested Abraham Werner's neptunist theory which proposed that the Earth had formed from a mass of water and suspended material which had formed rocks as layers of deposited sediment which became the continents when the water retreated, further layers being deposited by floods and some volcanic activity. The plutonists strongly disputed the neptunist view that rocks had been formed by processes that no longer operated, instead supporting Hutton's uniformitarianism.

Definition of plutonism in the English dictionary

The definition of plutonism in the dictionary is the theory that the earth's crust was formed by volcanoes or the formation of plutons within the earth's crust.

TRANSLATION OF PLUTONISM

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• Translator English - Chinese: plutonism
• Translator English - Spanish: plutonismo
• English: plutonism
• Translator English - Hindi: plutonism
• Translator English - Arabic: التسمم بالبلوتونيوم
• Translator English - Russian: плутонизм
• Translator English - Portuguese: plutonismo
• Translator English - Bengali: plutonism
• Translator English - French: plutonisme
• Translator English - Malay: Plutonisme
• Translator English - German: Plutonismus
• Translator English - Japanese: 深成活動
• Translator English - Korean: plutonism
• Translator English - Javanese: Plutonisme
• Translator English - Vietnamese: plutonism
• Translator English - Tamil: பொன்னாகம்
• Translator English - Marathi: प्लुटोनिझम
• Translator English - Turkish: plutonizma
• Translator English - Italian: plutonismo
• Translator English - Polish: plutonizm
• Translator English - Ukrainian: плутонізмом
• Translator English - Romanian: plutonism
• Translator English - Greek: πλουτωνισμό
• Translator English - Afrikaans: plutonism
• Translator English - Swedish: plutonism
• Translator English - Norwegian: plutonism

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLUTONISM»

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Volcanism, Tectonism, and Plutonism in the Western United States

INTERRELATIONSHIPS OF OROGENY AND PLUTONISM 25 zones. There is no correlation between plutonism and orogenic intensity (as reflected in the record of the stratified rocks); there is, however, a strong correlation between ...

James Gilluly, 1965

Plutonism from Antarctica to Alaska

NATURE OF CORDILLERAN INTERIOR PLUTONISM Introduction Figures 2 and 3 summarize spatial, temporal, and compositional data on plutonism in the western United States contained within the data base CONTACT3 (cf., Gilluly, 1965, ...

Suzanne Mahlburg Kay, Carlos W. Rapela, 1990

Cordilleran Volcanism, Plutonism, and Magma Generation at ...

This six-day field trip examines emplacement of late Cretaceous to Eocene felsic magmas at various crustal levels, from deep continental crust to the earth's surface. The trip is in three parts, each approximately two days long.

Donald W. Hyndman, Carolyn Rutland, Richard F. Hardyman, 1991

Circum-Pacific Plutonic Terranes

(iv) Relation Between Plutonism and Orogenic Cycles In the Hida division, plutonism took place mainly in the Early Jurassic, far later than deposition of the original sediments of the Hida Metamorphic Rocks, which is presumably pre- Permian.

J. A. Roddick, 1983

Ophiolites, Arcs, and Batholiths: A Tribute to Cliff Hopson

Late. Jurassic. plutonism. in. the. southwest. U.S.. Cordillera. Andrew P. Barth Indiana University–Purdue University, Department of Earth Sciences, 723 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA Joseph L. Wooden Keith A.

James Earl Wright, John W. Shervais, 2008

The Nature of Magmatism in the Appalachian Orogen

Low-potassium,. trondhjemitic. to. granodioritic. plutonism. in. the. eastern. Blue. Ridge,. southwestern. North. Carolina-northeastern. Georgia. C. F. Miller Department of Geology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235 Paul D.

A. Krishna Sinha, Joseph Bruce Whalen, John P. Hogan, 1997

From Rodinia to Pangea: The Lithotectonic Record of the ...

Alleghanian. plutonism. in. the. Suwannee. terrane,. USA: Implications. for. late. Paleozoic. tectonic. models. Ann L. Heatherington Paul A. Mueller Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-2120, USA  ...

Richard P. Tollo, 2010

Crustal Cross Sections from the Western North American ...

Plutonism. at. different. crustal. levels: Insights. from. the. ~5–40. km. (paleodepth) . North. Cascades. crustal. section,. Washington. Robert B. Miller* Department of Geology, San José State University, San José, California 95192-0102, USA ...

Robert Bruce Miller, Arthur W. Snoke, 2009

Geological Survey Professional Paper

The isotopic dates of two dikes suggest that dike emplacement immediately followed plutonism. Thus, a Rb-Sr age of 101 m.y. for a dike in the Behrendt Mountains of eastern Ellsworth Land is similar to ages of 101 and 100 m.y. for two nearby ...

Geological Survey (U.S.), 1988

Metamorphism and Plutonism Around the Middle and South Forks ...

Petrologic and structural studies of metamorphic and igneous rocks of part of Nevadan orogenic belt in northwestern Sierra Nevada.

Anna Martta Hietanen, 1976

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLUTONISM»

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MDRU sheds light on gold in the Yukon

After the orogenic gold deposits were formed, a surge of plutonism emplaced highly prospective porphyry and epithermal deposits along the ... «The Northern Miner, Jun 15»

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The Ring of Fire contains many of the world's major gold and copper deposits whose genesis is associated with volcanism and plutonism. «Marketwired, Aug 14»

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easy way to curl back to own small world! peace with you. by the way, what are all these neptonism, plutonism, hermetonism etc? newly ... «Catholic Herald Online, Jul 14»

Granite Wars - Episode II: A New Phase (-Diagram)

At the end of the 19th century and after the victory of "Plutonism" in the great Granite War, geologists accepted the idea that igneous rocks ... «Scientific American, Oct 13»

Granite Wars - Episode I: Fire & Water

This theory was named after the Roman god of the underworld "Plutonism". Marzari-Pencati had visited the active volcanoes in Italy and as ... «Scientific American, Sep 13»