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dyke-phase

dyke-phase is the alternative form of dyke phase.

Meaning of dyke phase

Noun

dyke phase (plural dyke phases)

  1. The period or event during which a dyke (a body of rock originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum that has eroded away) is formed.
    • and I have failed to detect those similarities between the sill and dyke phase of the same magma, which may reasonably be expected on such a view.1916, Geological Society of South Africa, Transactions - Volumes 18-24, page 46

Forms of dyke-phase

pluraldyke-phases

Questions about dyke-phase

What is dyke-phase the alternative form of?
Dyke-phase is the alternative form of dyke phase.

Words near dyke-phase in the dictionary

  1. dyke tyke
  2. dyke tykes
  3. dyke up
  4. dyke-back
  5. dyke-backs
  6. dyke-phase
  7. dyke-phases
  8. dyke-rock
  9. dyke-rocks
  10. dyke-swarm
  11. dyke-swarms

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