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Lopolith logo #10101) Igneous rock
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Lopolith

Lopolith logo #21000 A lopolith is a large igneous intrusion which is lenticular in shape with a depressed central region. Lopoliths are generally concordant with the intruded strata with dike or funnel-shaped feeder bodies below the body. The term was first defined and used by Frank Fitch Grout during the early 1900s in describing the Duluth gabbro complex in norther...
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lopolith

lopolith logo #21003igneous intrusion associated with a structural basin, with contacts that are parallel to the bedding of the enclosing rocks. In an ideal example, ... [1 related articles]
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lopolith

lopolith logo #22291 A saucer-shaped intrusive body of igneous rock. Lopoliths are typically mafic in composition.
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Lopolith

Lopolith logo #22392A large laccolith that is bowl-shaped and depressed in the center, possibly by subsidence of an empt
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lopolith

lopolith logo #23000 A large laccolith that is bowl-shaped and depressed in the center, possibly by subsidence of an emptied magma chamber beneath the intrusion.
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lopolith

lopolith logo #21199a mass of igneous rock similar to a laccolith but concave downward rather than upward.
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