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portions, and then the granite may be seen in the form of great 

 massifs. The great peaks of the Central Himalayas are nearly all of 

 them within the line of this granite intrusion, and the Kamet,the Mdna, 

 Badrinath, Kedarnath and Gangotri peaks are such granite massifs. 

 Further west it is in very strong force, and not only traverses the 

 crystalline rocks of the Sutlej valley as a perfect net-work of veins, 

 but thickens out into several masses, as for instance west of Shipki 

 on the Hund6s frontier. 



Fig. 8. Granite intrusions in hornblendic gneiss of the Shipki gorge. 



Mineralogically considered it approaches closely the granitic 

 gneiss of the Central Himalayas, but its mode of occurrence is distinctly 

 intrusive ; it is chiefly composed of muscovite, quartz and albite with 



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