sill intrusion

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• Sill — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Salisbury Crags en Edimburgo, Escocia, una intrusión magmática parcialmente expuesta durante la Edad de Hielo. En geología, un sill o manto es una masa tabular de roca ígnea, con frecuencia horizontal, que ha sido… …   Wikipedia Español

• sill — like, adj. /sil/, n. 1. a horizontal timber, block, or the like serving as a foundation of a wall, house, etc. 2. the horizontal piece or member beneath a window, door, or other opening. See diag. under double hung. 3. Geol. a tabular body of… …   Universalium

• Sill (geology) — In geology, a sill is a tabular pluton that has intruded between older layers of sedimentary rock, beds of volcanic lava or tuff, or even along the direction of foliation in metamorphic rock. The term sill is synonymous with concordant intrusive… …   Wikipedia

• Intrusion — In geology, an intrusion is a body of igneous rock that has crystallized from molten magma below the surface of the Earth. Bodies of magma that solidify underground before they reach the surface of the earth are called plutons, named for Pluto,… …   Wikipedia

• Intrusion (géologie) — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Intrusion (homonymie). Devils Tower National Monument, un neck révélé lorsque la roche moins dure l entourant s est érodée …   Wikipédia en Français

• sill —   a sheet like intrusion of magma between bedding planes …   Geography glossary

• sill —    (intrusive rocks)    A tabular, igneous intrusion that parallels the bedding or foliation of the surrounding sedimentary or metamorphic rock.    Compare: dike.    GG …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• 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

• Whin Sill — is a tabular layer of igneous rock, or sill, in County Durham and Northumberland, in the Northeast of England. This east west running geological formation lies partly in the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and partly in… …   Wikipedia

• Stirling Sill — The Stirling Sill is the outcropping of a large quartz dolerite intrusion or sill similar to those which underly a large part of central Scotland, and may be contiguous at great depth. The sill is of very late carboniferous age or more probably… …   Wikipedia

• Capitol Reef National Park — Infobox protected area | name = Capitol Reef National Park iucn category = II caption = locator x = 64 locator y = 84 location = Wayne, Garfield, Sevier, and Emery counties, Utah, USA nearest city = Torrey lat degrees = 38 lat minutes = 12 lat… …   Wikipedia