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Definition of Intrusions
1. intrusion [n] - See also: intrusion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intrusions
Literary usage of Intrusions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Igneous Rocks by Alfred Harker (1909)
"Concordant intrusions in plateau regions. — Dykes in plateau regions.—intrusions
in regions of mountain structure.—Plutonic intrusions of irregular habit. ..."
2. Physiography by Rollin D. Salisbury (1919)
"intrusions of lava. Lava is intruded from below into the crust of the ...
Other intrusions take on other forms. Thus intrusions of very great size are ..."
3. The Tertiary Igneous Rocks of Skye by Alfred Harker (1904)
"Id '«• rv * MINOR ACID intrusions. »•<• Under the head of the minor acul intrusions
we include for the purpose of petrographical description in common ..."
4. The Geology of the Fox Islands, Maine: A Contribution to the Study of Old by George Otis Smith (1896)
"DEVONIAN intrusions. At some time after the close of the volcanic activity
represented in the rocks exposed on the Fox Islands, there was a tilting of the ..."
5. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"The mechanics of igneous intrusions is discussed on PaRe 334- It will be shown
that intrusions probably work their way toward the surface largely by sloping ..."
6. A College Text-book of Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1909)
"intrusions Fluid rock forced into fissures and solidified there forms dikes; ...
The heating of the adjacent rock by intrusions varies with the mass and ..."
7. Britton: An English Translation and Notes by Francis Morgan Nichols (1901)
"But because there are several kinds of intrusions, the form of the writ must be
... As all these cases are intrusions, the forms of the writs must be varied ..."
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