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Some Field Evidence Relating to the Modes of Occurrence of Intrusive Rocks, with Some Remarks upon the Origin of Eruptive Rocks in General

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

J. G. Goodchild
J. G. Goodchild
Affiliation:
Edinburgh Museum of Science
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It is commonly believed by geologists, as well as by coal miners, that the inner faces of the rocks which enclose intrusive masses were at one time in contact, and that each of these surfaces is the counterpart in form to the other, from which it has been severed by the forces to which the injection of the intrusive mass was due. In the case of a sill, for example, this belief implies that the rock floor below the sill and the roof above it were in unbroken contact at some time before the sill was intruded, and that the floor and the roof have been forced apart to a distance equal to the thickness of the intrusive mass.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , 1906 , pp. 197 - 226
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1906

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note * page 199 The questions raised are of a petrographical as distinguished from lithological character.

note * page 203 Why should these be called Xenoliths

note * page 220 See a paper by the present author, “On a Granite Junction in the Isle of Mull,” Geol. Mag., dec. iii., vol. ix. pp. 447–451 (1893).Google Scholar