Not to mention that "pluton" already has a geological meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pluto spam] Reference

My major issue now is that Ceres is not compositionally very similar to the outer solar system objects, so this "pluton" designation is different than our "jovian" and "terrestrial" designations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pluto spam] Reference

He decided to risk that half pluton to find out what was going on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tunnel In The Sky]

A pluton can be defined as any igneous intrusion of rock that forms a kilometer or more below the Earth's surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Formation of the Earth's crust] Reference

Rod considered spending another half pluton to find out who the important visitor was, but his attention was diverted to gate five.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tunnel In The Sky]

For a complete descriptive listing of all planets now open plus a special list of those to be opened in the near future add another half pluton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tunnel In The Sky]

For a beautiful projection reel showing this planet send one pluton to 'Information, Box One, Emigrants' Gap, New Jersey County, Greater New York. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tunnel In The Sky]

Immediately to the north and west of Great and Little bays, a granite intrusion of Exeter diorite comprising the Exeter pluton (i.e., part of the Hillsboro plutonic series) is present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Hampshire] Reference

This hole tested the contact between the Bourlamaque pluton and the volcanic rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canadian Mining Journal - Headline News] Reference

The German Bank pluton, offshore SW Nova Scotia: Age, petrology, and regional significance for Alleghanian plutonism.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

Age, geochemistry, and tectonic implications of a late Paleozoic stitching pluton in the North Tian Shan suture zone, western China.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

The mineralizing fluids appear to have migrated out from the pluton along the length of the gently east-southeasterly plunging fold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

Anomaly C comprises an 850 by 100 m area typified by moderately to strongly elevated silver values along, and parallel to, a linear feature within the pluton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

The Cook Lake South property has had a protracted history of exploration owing to its favourable location at the western end of the Sneath Lake synvolcanic pluton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases]

Two mineralized systems have been identified on the Summit "B" property, within a kilometer to the south of a large early Mississippian granodiorite to diorite pluton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

The first drill hole (BN-08-01), designed to test for gold structures at the contact between the Bourlamaque pluton and the volcanic rocks, intersected two gold-bearing quartz-tourmaline veins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

These silver-rich carbonate replacement deposits lie near a large granitic pluton northeast of the property which presumably provided the mineralizing fluids which invaded the Paleozoic carbonates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

A property-wide soil geochemical survey conducted during 2009 identified three gold +/- copper anomalies, which lie primarily in the volcanic rocks flanking the pluton, and a linear silver anomaly within the pluton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

New geologic work has led to the recognition that the district's known copper deposits are the faulted and tilted portions of a cluster of large porphyry copper-molybdenum systems centered on a Laramide-age granitic pluton.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

The geology here is a near mirror image of the eastern end of the Sneath Lake pluton where the copper dominated mines of the Snow Lake camp are located (e.g. Stall Lake with historical production of 6.3 million tonnes grading 4. 4% Cu, 0. 5% Zn, 10.7 g/t Ag, 1.4 g/t Au).    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases]

Heck, Devil’s Tower of Close Encounters of the Third Kind fame is a pluton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wherein I argue emotionally about the definition of "planet" - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

No one’s really sure if you have to say “dwarf pluton,” or whether all plutons are automatically dwarfs, or whatever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wherein I argue emotionally about the definition of "planet" - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Copper-silver-zinc-lead in breccia pipes developed in sedimentary rocks believed to be underlain at a shallow depth by a buried pluton.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

1991, Investigation of rare-earth elements and zirconium in the Windy Fork peralkaline pluton, west-central Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines field report, 36 p. (2) Reed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

Well.… terrestrial geologists already have a use for the term “pluton” - it’s an intrusive igneous body, meaning that it’s a body of magma that never reached the surface of the Earth, and cooled off inside the Earth to form an igneous rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wherein I argue emotionally about the definition of "planet" - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

And I don’t see a scheme that creates several overlapping and interpenetrating definitions–”primary planets,” “dwarf planets,” “historical planets,” “plutons,” and “non-pluton dwarfs”–as very good for explaining the universe to schoolkids, lay people, or anyone else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reeking With Plutessence « Whatever] Reference

Is that like a pluton?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incidentally – « Whatever] Reference

Is it a pluton or an KBO?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pluton? « Whatever] Reference

Stone Mountain in Georgia is a pluton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wherein I argue emotionally about the definition of "planet" - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

A pluton would be any planet beyond Neptune.    From Wordnik.com.  [We’re Suddently Three Planets Bigger] Reference

Topics in Sedimentary Geology That I Write About Reply to the comments on "Magmatic history and geophysical signature of a post-collisional intrusive center emplaced near a crustal-scale shear zone: the Plechý granite pluton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clastic Detritus] Reference

Posted by: breitling pluton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horses Mouth January 22, 2007 11:44 AM] Reference