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- Concordant pluton that has domed up strata
into which it intruded.
Source: Leet, L. Don. 1982.
Physical Geology, 6th Edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall
- A concordant igneous intrusion with a known or assumed flat floor and a
postulated, dikelike feeder commonly thought to be beneath its thickest
point. It is generally plano-convex in form and roughly circular in plan,
less than 5 miles (8 km) in diameter, and from a few feet to several
hundred feet in thickness. See also: phacolith AGI
Source:
Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms
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