- A
laccolith is a body of
intrusive rock with a dome-shaped
upper surface and a
level base, fed by a
conduit from below. A
laccolith forms when
magma (molten...
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penetrate between sedimentary beds. A
laccolith is a
concordant intrusion with a flat base and
domed roof.
Laccoliths typically form at
shallow depth, less...
- A well-known
result of this
process is Half Dome in
Yosemite Valley.
Laccolith Sill
Volcanic plug Petersen,
James F.; Sack, Dorothy; Gabler,
Robert E...
- into
which it intrudes.
Typical intrusive bodies are batholiths, stocks,
laccoliths,
sills and ****s.
Common intrusive rocks are granite, gabbro, or diorite...
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Igneous Rock. Legend: A =
magma chamber (batholith); B = ****/****; C =
laccolith; D = pegmatite; E = sill; F = stratovolcano; processes: 1 =
newer intrusion...
- sphenolith, or
bulge discordantly like an
akmolith or ethmolith"; i.e. a
laccolith which looks like a cactus. The term was
coined by
Charles B. Hunt, a USGS...
- from the Pine
Valley Laccolith, the
largest laccolith in the
United States and
perhaps the world. [unreliable source?] The
laccolith was
formed during a...
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emplacement result in
different structures,
including plutons, sills,
laccoliths and lopoliths.
Partial melting is the
first step for
generating magma...
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range is made up of a
yellowish granite underlain by grey gabbro-diorite
laccolith and the
sedimentary rocks it intrudes,
deeply eroded by glaciers. The...
- has been
attributed to an
impact event and ****ociated
crustal melting.
Laccolith Phacolith Batholith Blatt,
Harvey and
Robert J. Tracy, 1996, Petrology:...
