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This document summarizes recommendations from the IUGS Subcommission on the Systematics of Igneous Rocks for classifying and naming plutonic rocks. The key points are: 1) The subcommission aims to develop a single rational system for classifying igneous rocks that can be used worldwide. 2) They have agreed on a system for plutonic rocks (except charnockites) that classifies rocks based on their mineral content using a QAPF diagram and recommends names like granite, alkali-feldspar granite, syenite. 3)

Author

Maricarmen Buiza Muñoz

Language

EN