Definition of Diapiric

1. diapir [adj] - See also: diapir

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diapiric

diaphragming
diaphragmodynia
diaphragms
diaphtherin
diaphyseal
diaphysectomy
diaphyses
diaphysial
diaphysial aclasis
diaphysial centre
diaphysial dysplasia
diaphysis
diaphysitis
diapir
diapiresis
diapiric (current term)
diapirs
diaplacental
diaplasis
diaplastic
diaplexus
diapnoic
diapolycopene
diapophyses
diapophysical
diapophysis
diapositive
diapositives
diapsid
diapsid reptile

Literary usage of Diapiric

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fluid Flow Through Faults and Fractures in Argillaceous Formations by Nuclear Energy Agency (1998)
"Such anticlines seem to develop locally into diapiric structures. Again, one diapiric feature pierces the base of a Quaternary ..."

2. Abstracts of the Eighth International Conference on Geochronology by Marvin A. Lanphere, G. Brent Dalrymple, Brent D. Turrin, Geological Survey (U.S.) (1994)
"The diapiric core was emplaced as a crystal-dominated mush with initial ... Cognate xenoliths of anorthosite contained within the diapiric core and the ..."

3. United Arab Emirates: A New Perspective by Ibrahim Abed, Peter Hellyer (2001)
"... are mostly the higher parts of a diapiric salt-dome surface, the clearest evidence for which occurs where the migrating salt has erupted through to the ..."

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