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What type of pluton is Shiprock?

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Shiprock is composed of fractured volcanic breccia and black di[k]es of igneous rock called minette, or lamprophyre. It is the erosional remnant of the throat of a volcano, and the volcanic breccia formed in a diatreme.

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