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Definition of Laccoliths
1. laccolith [n] - See also: laccolith
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laccoliths
Literary usage of Laccoliths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Igneous Rocks and Their Origin by Reginald Aldworth Daly (1914)
"Differentiation in laccoliths and Intrusive Sheets.—Many thick laccoliths and
sheets show tellingly not only the reality of large-scale assimilation but ..."
2. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1905)
"laccoliths of North America. Sills or Intrusive Sheets appear to be much-denuded
laccoliths. Necks or Pipes of Eruption—their General Phenomena. ..."
3. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1910)
"laccoliths of North America. Sills or Intrusive Sheets appear to be much-denuded
laccoliths. Necks or Pipes of Eruption—their General Phenomena. ..."
4. Engineering Geology: By Heinrich Ries and Thomas L. Watson by Heinrich Ries, Thomas Leonard Watson (1914)
"laccoliths. — A laccolith is a lenticular or dome-shaped mass of igneous rock
intruded between ... 52. the general structure of laccoliths due probably, ..."
5. A Study of Ore Deposits for the Practical Miner: With Descriptions of Ore by James Philip Wallace (1908)
"It is in this way that laccoliths are formed. (Seep. 129.) Not infrequently these
lines of weakness along bedding-planes have been previously widened by ..."
6. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1905)
"Those who have made actual researches among laccoliths, and have preserved the
term "laccolith" with the original meaning of Gilbert's broader definition, ..."
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