The Long Batholith (mPlog) is a polyphase intrusion defined south of its eponymous lake (SE corner of sheet 32H07). The batholith is characterized by an intense magnetic susceptibility with a more or less elliptical shape. It was delineated following an interpretation of the aeromagnetic map of sheets 32H07 and 32H08 (Intissar and Benahmed, 2015). It consists of alkali feldspar granite, mangerite, quartz syenite, hypersthene syenite, gabbronorite and lesser proportions of syenogranite, quartz monzodiorite and granodiorite.

Alkali feldspar granite (e.g. outcrop 2021-FT-3309) is generally pink in alteration patina, brown-pink in fresh surface, medium to coarse grained and undeformed. It contains quartz, potassium feldspar, plagioclase, magnetite and variable proportions of biotite and hornblende from one outcrop to another. Hematization is observed on some outcrops and the rock is rather pinkish in alteration patina. This alteration is not very deep and only occupies the first few centimetres on the surface of the rock. In several outcrops, alkali feldspar granite is associated with gabbronorite. The contact between the two is sometimes very clear, but locally it can be diffuse.

Mangerite (hypersthene monzonite), quartz syenite and hypersthene syenite can form an assemblage on the same outcrop. This is due to the variation in potassium feldspar and plagioclase content from one lithology to another. The mangerite is pink-brown in alteration patina, pink-grey in fresh surface, medium to coarse grained and generally foliated (e.g. outcrop 2021-FT-3094). Locally, the mangerite may be porphyroid to porphyroclastic with potassium feldspar phenocrysts (e.g. outcrop 2021-ME-1074). It contains orthopyroxene, plagioclase, quartz, hornblende, biotite and magnetite. Microscopically, potassium feldspar, especially microcline, is perthitic and ferromagnesian minerals (biotite, orthopyroxene, green hornblende) are grouped in millimetric clusters with magnetite. Large patches of undulatory extinction quartz and myrmekite are locally present. Allanite, apatite and zircon are the accessory phases of the mangerite. Quartz syenite and hypersthene syenite have the same structure as mangerite, but the differences lie in their specific mineralogical content, especially in the proportions of potassium feldspar and plagioclase.

Gabbronorite is grey-brown in alteration patina, greyish in fresh surface, equigranular, fine to medium grained, with a subophitic structure (salt and pepper) and foliated (e.g. outcrop 2021-ME-1077). It consists of plagioclase, orthopyroxene and clinopyroxene as well as biotite and magnetite. Some outcrops show biotitization (e.g. outcrop 2021-FT-3308). Locally, the gabbronorite of this batholith is cut by several millimetre to centimetre-thick veins and dykes of fine to medium-grained alkali feldspar granite, pegmatitic in places. Millimetric (<1 cm) enclaves of clinopyroxene and biotite ultramafic rock are observed in this lithology.

Smaller proportions of syenogranite (e.g. outcrop 2021-FT-3307) and quartz monzodiorite (e.g. outcrop 2021-FT-3079) are mapped in the batholith. The syenogranite is generally pink in alteration patina, pink-grey in fresh surface, equigranular, fine grained and foliated. In outcrop, the mineralogy consists of quartz, feldspars, biotite and magnetite. The quartz monzodiorite is green-brown in alteration patina and grey-green in fresh surface. The rock is medium to coarse grained, porphyroid with feldspar phenocrysts (<5% length, <5% of the rock) and foliated. Its mineralogical composition consists of potassium feldspar, plagioclase, magnetite, clinopyroxene, orthopyroxene and biotite. The accessory phases are apatite and ilmenite.