Phacolith

Quick meaning: Phacolith is a noun meaning (geology) A lens-shaped mass that occurs in an anticlinal crest or synclinal trough.

Meaning

(geology) A lens-shaped mass that occurs in an anticlinal crest or synclinal trough.

Example Sentences

This body is a phacolith intruded along the gneiss-schist boundary in the trough of a syncline that plunges 16° southeast.

Corndon Hill, which lies east of Montgomery in Powys, Wales, is a circular phacolith made of Ordovician dolerite (Figure 5.3b).

This bedding forms a distinctive stratigraphic sequence that may be traced from phacolith to phacolith throughout an area of 1,200 square miles.

Word Forms

• phacoliths

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lacolith, phacolite, microlithon, hydrolaccolith, coccolith, cystolith.

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