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Xenoliths in upper Early Winters Creek- new Northwest Geology Field Trips page

Last week I hiked up Early Winters Creek above Highway 20 to see fantastic xenoliths enclosed in Golden Horn granite. Xenoliths are fragments of older host rock enclosed in intruding magma as a pluton moved upward into the shallow crust. This is called ‘stoping’ and I explain more about this and the really cool-looking rocks […]

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