Meaning of dyke phase | Babel Free

Definitions

The period or event during which a dyke (a body of rock originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum that has eroded away) is formed.

Examples

“and I have failed to detect those similarities between the sill and dyke phase of the same magma, which may reasonably be expected on such a view.”

“One of the most striking features of this igneous cycle is the remarkably well-developed dyke-phase, which in general followed, though to some extent it overlapped, the plutonic phase.”

“The rocks of dyke phase include viz. microgranite, rhyolite, trachyandesite, trachydacite in Siwana”

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