Relating to or composed of bathyliths; describing rocks or geological formations formed from large deep-seated magma bodies.
From batholith + '-ic' (adjective suffix). A geological descriptive term used in petrology and structural geology.
Bathylithic granite contains huge crystals because it cooled so slowly underground—the slower the cooling, the bigger the crystals grow, like a geological slow-motion movie!
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