Formation
Rapakivi granites have formation ages from Archean to recent and are not usually associated with orogeny. They have formed in shallow (a few km deep) sills of up to 10 km thickness.
Rapakivi granites are often found associated with intrusions of anorthosite, norite, charnockite and mangerite. It has been suggested that the entire suite results from the fractional crystallization of a single parental magma .
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