Clastic dike
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clastic-dike-162-12122594
title:
Clastic dike
text:
A clastic dike is a seam of sedimentary material that fills an open fracture in and cuts across sedimentary rock strata or layering in other rock types. Clastic dikes form rapidly by fluidized injection or passively by water, wind, and gravity. Diagenesis may play a role in the formation of some dikes. Clastic dikes are commonly vertical or near-vertical. Centimeter-scale widths are common, but thicknesses range from millimetres to metres. Length is usually many times width. Clastic dikes are fo
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Body of sedimentary rock cutting vertically across rock layers
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clastic_dike
date created:
2006-09-25T04:13:12Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T12:15:47Z
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image:
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fields total:
13
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16