Cactolith
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Cactolith
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A cactolith is a type of igneous intrusion, a "quasi-horizontal chonolith composed of anastomosing ductoliths, whose distal ends curl like a harpolith, thin out like a sphenolith, or bulge discordantly like an akmolith or ethmolith"; i.e. a laccolith which looks like a cactus. The term was coined by Charles B. Hunt, a USGS researcher, in his paper "Geology and geography of the Henry Mountains region, Utah" (1953). He was in fact describing an actual geological feature that resembled a cactus, bu
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2023-08-13T10:31:00Z
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