NOUN
- a domed rock formation where a core of rock has moved upward and pierced through the more brittle overlying strata
How To Use diapir In A Sentence
- In particular they show that the conspicuous strike swing in the host rocks around the complex is an earlier structure, that passively controlled emplacement, and is not the result of diapiric pluton emplacement.
- Mud diapirs, pockmarks and mud volcanoes are common features at seepage sites, where various pathways such as faults, other fractures and sedimentary discontinuities act as conduits for fluid seepage.
- In summary, magmas do not have to rise in the crust by slow, density-driven diapiric processes, or stoping processes where the magma detaches and absorbs blocks of surrounding rock.
- Mahnmut set his course to the nearest diapir rising to a lead and added five more knots just to be safe, if there was such a thing as safety within tentacle range of a mature kraken. Ilium
- Reactive diapirism in Lower Jurassic shales may have contributed to the formation of a central uplift at base Cretaceous level.
- Essentially, this means that over geological timescales, diapirs flow through the sub-surface.
- A diapir was nothing more than a blob of warm ice, heated by the vents and gravitational hot zones far below, rising through the Epsom-salt sea toward the ice cap that had once covered 100 percent of Europa and which now, two thousand e-years after the cryobot arbeiter company arrived, still covered more than 98 percent of the moon. Ilium
- They contain kilometre-scale blocks of igneous basement rocks, plucked by the rising diapir from the footwall of the fault.
- This diapir was about fifteen klicks across and rising rapidly as it approached the surface cap. Ilium
- Uplift would result from resultant mantle upwelling or asthenospheric diapirism.
