Granite dome
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granite-dome-261-488154
title:
Granite dome
text:
Granite domes are domical hills composed of granite with bare rock exposed over most of the surface. Generally, domical features such as these are known as bornhardts. Bornhardts can form in any type of plutonic rock but are typically composed of granite and granitic gneiss. As granitic plutons cool kilometers below the Earth's surface, minerals in the rock crystallize under uniform confining pressure. Erosion brings the rock closer to Earth's surface and the pressure from above the rock decreas
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Rounded hills of bare granite formed by exfoliation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite_dome
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2023-01-29T12:56:14Z
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