a type of igneous or volcanic rock found on the ocean floor that is rich in aluminium and similar to basalt
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They show an affinity as a transition between calc-alkaline and tholeiite.
Iskandar ZulkarnaIn 2014, 'Petrogenesis batuan vulkanik daerah tambang emas Lebong Tandai, Provinsi Bengkulu,berdasarkan karakter geokimianya', Indonesian Journal on Geosciencehttps://ijog.geologi.esdm.go.id/index.php/IJOG/article/view/48. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Some of them are associated with gabbros, anorthosites and olivine-tholeiite diabases.
P.A. Nurmi, I. Haapala 1986, 'The Proterozoic granitoids of Finland: Granite types, metallogeny and relation tocrustal evolution', Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finlandhttp://www.geologinenseura.fi/bulletin/Volume58/sgs_bt_058_1_pages_203_233.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)