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- A phacolith is a pluton of igneous rock parallel to the bedding plane or foliation of folded country rock. More specifically, it is a typically lens-shaped...
- attributed to an impact event and ****ociated crustal melting. Laccolith Phacolith Batholith Blatt, Harvey and Robert J. Tracy, 1996, Petrology: Igneous...
- flat top and a shallow convex base, may have a feeder **** or pipe below Phacolith: a concordant lens-shaped pluton that typically occupies the crest of...
- volcanic rocks and often form ****s, sills, laccoliths, lopoliths, or phacoliths. Extrusive igneous rock, also known as volcanic rock, is formed by the...
- affected local strata. The diabase is therefore considered to constitute a phacolith. Watchung Mountains Kummel, Henry B. (1899). Annual Report of the State...