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dyke-rock

dyke-rock noun: a type of igneous rock that fills a dyke (a rock filling a fissure that is now often rising above the older stratum that has eroded away).

Noun

dyke-rock (plural dyke-rocks)

  1. A type of igneous rock that fills a dyke (a rock filling a fissure that is now often rising above the older stratum that has eroded away).
    • Appears to be a fine-grained dioritic dyke rock, but is too dirty and stained to be satisfactorily examined.1901, Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents, Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, page 427
    • If the dyke is of great thickness the centre may be coarsely crystalline as a deep-seated plutonic rock and this makes it difficult to distinguish a dyke rock in hand specimen.1983, B. Simpson, Rock & Minerals, page 88

Forms of dyke-rock

pluraldyke-rocks

Questions about dyke-rock

What does dyke-rock mean?
Dyke-rock means a type of igneous rock that fills a dyke (a rock filling a fissure that is now often rising above the older stratum that has eroded away).
What part of speech is dyke-rock?
Dyke-rock is a noun.
What is the plural of dyke-rock?
The plural of dyke-rock is dyke-rocks.

Words near dyke-rock in the dictionary

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

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