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country rock1 n (Earth Sciences / Geological Science) the rock surrounding a mineral vein or igneous intrusion country rock2 n (Music / Pop Music) a style of rock music influenced by country and western How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Prolonged pluton emplacement and cooling resulted in further deformation of the country rocks with the calc-silicate rocks behaving in brittle fashion, and the unmetamorphosed rocks behaving in a ductile fashion. The volcaniclastic country rocks display brittle fracture and have high to very high quartz and quartz-carbonate vein densities. These phreatomagmatic explosive eruptions result from the interaction of highly charged fluid-rich magmas with the water saturated country rocks into which they are intruding. |
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