diabase dike

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• Dike (geology) — Banded gneiss with dike of granite orthogneiss. An intrusion (Notch Peak monzonite) inter fingers (partly as a dike …   Wikipedia

• Shelburne dike — The Shelburne dike is a large northeast trending Mesozoic diabase dike in southeastern Nova Scotia, Canada. It is Unit km|140|0 long, although some evidence suggests it extends a further Unit km|60|0 to the northeast to Sambro Island. [… …   Wikipedia

• Marathon Large Igneous Province — The Marathon Large Igneous Province is a Paleoproterozoic large igneous province along the southern Superior craton of Ontario, Canada, located around the northern margin of Lake Superior. It consists of three diabase dike swarms known as… …   Wikipedia

• Wichita Mountains — Range Elk Mountain, in the eastern Wichita Mountains …   Wikipedia

• Natural arch — Natural bridges redirects here. For the U.S. National Monument, see Natural Bridges National Monument. The Delicate Arch in Arches National Park in Utah, United States. A natural arch or natural bridge is a natural geological formation where a… …   Wikipedia

• McMillan Woods — Woods Name origin: O. D. McMillan[ …   Wikipedia

• Nipissing sills — associated with Ungava magmatic event The Nipissing sills, also called the Nipissing diabase, is a large 2217– to 2210–million year old group of sills in the Superior craton of the Canadian Shield in Ontario, Canada …   Wikipedia

• Palisades Sill — The Palisades Sill is a Triassic, 200 Ma diabase intrusion. It extends through portions of New York and New Jersey. It is most noteworthy for The Palisades, the cliffs that rise steeply above the western bank of the Hudson River. The ideal… …   Wikipedia

• igneous rock — Any of various crystalline or glassy, noncrystalline rocks formed by the cooling and solidification of molten earth material (magma). Igneous rocks comprise one of the three principal classes of rocks, the others being metamorphic and sedimentary …   Universalium

• Ophiolite — Ordovician ophiolite in Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland. An ophiolite (  / …   Wikipedia