This paper reviews the literature on dyking as a mechanism of felsic magma extraction from a source and transport to shallower crustal levels, and review the recent literature suggesting a range of alternative mechanisms of magma migration in hot crustal zones which produce mesoscale pervasive granite sheet intrusions. Recent papers have strongly favoured dyking as the main mechanism controllin...

metagabbro, metadiabase and metabasalt of the chah palang and me'raji mountains associated with lower paleozoic metamorphites are situated in the south of arousan. metabasites of these areas are relatively similar in terms of mineralogy and geochemical characteristics. rock-forming minerals of the me'raji metabasites are feldspar, amphibole, biotite, sphene, epidote, chlorite ± calcite. metagab...

Research on the populations of rice grain bug Paraeuscosmetus pallicomis Dallas (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae) in paddy field ecosystems was performed with the aim to determine the populations of rice grain bug in weed-free paddy field, weedy paddy field, and paddy dykes. Experiment was carried out in the village of Paccellekang in the district of Patallasang of Gowa Regency in South Sulawesi, Indonesi...

Previous studies have shown that the 2.04 Ga Kangâmiut dyke swarm of SW Greenland was injected into an active tectonic environment associated with the formation of the Nagssugtoqidian orogenic belt. Major and trace element modelling of the swarm shows that its chemical evolution was controlled by simple clinopyroxene–plagioclase fractionation. However, such trends — although typical of continen...

dyke swarms emplacement constitutes one of the conspicuous features of the neoproterozoic arabian-nubian shield (ans) (~950-540ma). based on field investigations, petrographic and geochemical characteristics the dyke swarms in nw sinai (egypt) comprise of mafic (dolerite-trachy-basalt-basalt), intermediate (basaltic-andesite trachy-andesite) and felsic (rhyodacite-rhyolite) varieties. geochemic...

Movement data resulting from tracking positions of various moving objects (people, animals, goods, etc.) have recently got close attention of researchers. Methods for analysis of movement data have been developed in the areas of geographic information science (Buliung and Kanaroglou 2004), geovisualization (Dykes and Mountain 2003), information visualization (Kapler and Wright 2005), data minin...

Magmatic sheet intrusions (dykes) constitute the main form of magma transport in the Earth's crust. The size distribution of dykes is a crucial parameter that controls volcanic surface deformation and eruption rates and is required to realistically model volcano deformation for eruption forecasting. Here we present statistical analyses of 3,676 dyke thickness measurements from different tectoni...

The goal of geovisualization is discovery and this can be hindered by a number of factors, including inadequate tools, that represent significant obstacles to the geovisualization thought process and require considerable effort to overcome (Dykes, forthcoming). Good software design using methods to support interaction can reduce these, but impediments are increasingly likely as geovisualization...