A batholith has an irregular shape with side walls that incline steeply against the host rock. Most batholiths intrude across mountain folds and are elongated along the dominant axis of the range; faulting and contact metamorphism of the enveloping rock near the batholith is also observed.
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Catherine II or Catherine the Great (1729-1796) was very fond of education and culture. She maintained correspondence with the thinkers of the era such as Voltaire and Diderot. She was the owner of an art collection that now is exhibited in the Hermitage Museum. However, during her reign she improved the Russian empire. She continued the process of Westernisation initiated by Peter the Great (1672-1725). Catherine added territories such as Crimea, Belarus and Lithuania extending the Russia’s borders into central Europe.
