Magmatism during the maturation phase of Archean greenstone belts produced voluminous tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite (TTG) suites, as well a lesser amount tonalite–trondhjemite–diorite (TTD) suites. Such TTD suites have recently been recognized in Abitibi belt, on southern flank Superior Craton, Canada, but their source(s), differentiation processes, and depths emplacement remain poorly con...

The Haisyn complex rocks (sobites (Shcherbakov, 2005)), consisting of diorite-like and amphibolites, which biotite granites develop, is outcroping near the village Shumyliv along South Bug river in an abandoned open pit mine (on Shumyliv). are characterized by high magnetization according to magnetic survey results. A linear anomaly extends north-east direction (NE 69º) with a distance more tha...

Terahertz (THz) time-domain spectroscopy probes the optical properties of naturally occurring solid aggregates of minerals, or stones, in the THz frequency range. Refractive index and extinction coefficient measurement reveals that most natural stones, including mudstone, sandstone, granite, tuff, gneiss, diorite, slate, marble, and dolomite, are fairly transparent for THz frequency waves. Dolo...

The microscopic and geomechanical properties of igneous building stones include the level of alteration, presence of micro cracks, peak strength, porosity, proportion of detrimental minerals, etc. Porosity is reportedly of a devastating impact on the peak strength of igneous rocks. The quartz diorite rock samples in this study were selected from five quarries in Natanz, Iran and subject to micr...