Sills and laccoliths

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Title: Sills and laccoliths
Author: Barker, Daniel S.
Description: One of a series of images with descriptions of igneous and volcanic geological features in field environments.
Department: Geological Sciences
Subject: Volcanic rocks
Igneous rocks
Field geology
Field photography
Volcanology
Salisbury Crags, Edinburgh
Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh
Sills
Laccolith
Royal Park, Edinburgh, Scotland
Joints
London
Street pavers
James Hutton
Neptunists
Cross cutting relationships
Shonkin Sag, Montana
Rubh an Eirannach sill
Isle of Skye, Scotland
Lajitas, Texas
Cretaceous Boquillas Formation
Xenoliths
Paleozoic rocks
Porphyritic
Aphyric
Quartzite xenoliths
Iceland
Baked zone
Elephant Butte Reservoir, New Mexico
David Kenneth Bailey
Drumadoon, Isle of Arran, Scotland
Sierra Prieta, Diablo Plateau, Texas
Sierra Tinaja Pinta complex, Diablo Plateau, Texas
Cretaceous limestone
San Antonio Mountain, Diablo Plateau, Texas – New Mexico
Torres del Paine, Patagonia
Chile
Tabular intrusive bodies
Contact
Bedding plane
Wall rock
Magma
Arched contact
Injection
Quarries
Sedimentary rocks
History of geology
Basal contact
Shale
Lava flow
Mafic magma
Syenite layer
Felsic magma
Zoning
Thermal metamorphism
Plagioclase
Microfossil
Quartzite
Tridymite blades
Quartz
Dike
Magma chamber
Imbrications
Limestone
Density sorting
Plug flow
Mafic igneous xenoliths
Magma reservoir
Hyaloclastite
Strike and dip
Rhyolite laccolith, Sierra Blanca, Texas
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/6304
Date: 2009-04

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