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Title: Most granitic batholiths are generated ________.
Post by: clmills979 on Feb 28, 2020

Question 1

Which type of plate margin is characterized by volcanoes that include basalt, andesite, dacite and rhyolite?
◦ hot spots
◦ transform faults
◦ convergent plate margins
◦ spreading ridges

Question 2

Most granitic batholiths are generated ________.
◦ along hot spot chains beneath continents, like a welder cutting through the continent to make a linear belt of intrusive granites
◦ where spreading ridges occur beneath continents
◦ as intrusions beneath composite volcanoes along convergent plate margins
◦ along transform faults, which accounts for their linear geographic distribution

Title: Most granitic batholiths are generated ________.
Post by: shaquita on Feb 28, 2020

Answer 1

convergent plate margins

Answer 2

as intrusions beneath composite volcanoes along convergent plate margins

Title: Re: Most granitic batholiths are generated ________.
Post by: Sydney Miller on Feb 25, 2021

thank you!