Definition of Inlier

1. a type of rock formation [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inlier

inlayer
inlayers
inlaying
inlayings
inlays
inlead
inleague
inleak
inleaks
inleck
inlet
inlet manifold
inlet of larynx
inlets
inletting
inlier (current term)
inliers
inlight
inlighted
inlighten
inlinable
inline
inline hockey
inline skate
inline skates
inline skating
inlined
inlines
inlining
inlist

Literary usage of Inlier

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

1. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1905)
"As an inlier is the result of denudation, and due FIG. ... Now and again, however, an inlier appears along the back of a denuded anticline, as in the case ..."

2. Geology by Alexander Henry Green (1882)
"Outlier and inlier.—Tilting and bending, combined with subsequent denudation, have often resulted in the production of isolated patches of rock, ..."

3. The Geology of the English Lake District by John Postlethwaite (1906)
"On the western side oi the Cross Fell range, there is an inlier of lower palaeozoic rocks, ... Moreover, the inlier, between these faults, is also divided ..."

4. The Cretaceous Rocks of Britain by Alfred John Jukes-Browne, William Hill (1903)
"THE WINCHESTER inlier. The inlier of Lower Chalk at Winchester is a small area on the east side of the Itchen Valley, running from Bar End to Chilcombe. ..."

5. The Silurian Rocks of Britain by Benjamin Nieve Peach, John Horne, Jethro Justinian Harms Teall (1899)
"The strata included in this inlier (Sheet 17), form a belt rather more than two miles iu width, extending from ..."

6. Geology by Thomas George Bonney (1874)
"... by denudation from the main mass is called an outlier, and one included in a series of older deposits, like a pudding in a basin, is called an inlier. ..."

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