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”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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