What is a wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata called?
dike — (Geol.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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