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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Plutonism

· Plu·to·nism · IPA
01 n. The theory, early advanced in geology, that the successive rocks of the earth's crust were formed by igneous fusion; -- opposed to the Nept…
  1. 1.
    The theory, early advanced in geology, that the successive rocks of the earth's crust were formed by igneous fusion; -- opposed to the Neptunian theory.