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Meaning of "lopolith" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD LOPOLITH

From Greek lopas dish + -lith.

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PRONUNCIATION OF LOPOLITH

ˈlɒpəlɪθ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LOPOLITH

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Lopolith is a noun.
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WHAT DOES LOPOLITH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Lopolith

A lopolith is a large igneous intrusion which is lenticular in shape with a depressed central region. Lopoliths are generally concordant with the intruded strata with dike or funnel-shaped feeder bodies below the body. The term was first defined and used by Frank Fitch Grout during the early 1900s in describing the Duluth gabbro complex in northern Minnesota and adjacent Ontario. Lopoliths typically consist of large layered intrusions that range in age from Archean to Eocene. Examples include the Duluth gabbro, the Sudbury Igneous Complex of Ontario, the Bushveld igneous complex of South Africa, the Great Dyke in Zimbabwe, the Skaergaard complex of Greenland and the Humboldt lopolith of Nevada. The Sudbury occurrence has been attributed to an impact event and associated crustal melting.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LOPOLITH

acrolith · batholith · coccolith · coprolith · cystolith · gastrolith · laccolith · megalith · monolith · phytolith · regolith · rhabdolith · xenolith

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LOPOLITH

lop-eared · lope · Lope de Vega · loper · Lopez · lopgrass · lophobranch · lophobranchiate · lophodont · lophophorate · lophophore · loping · lopped · lopper · loppies · lopping · loppy · lopsided · lopsidedly · lopsidedness

WORDS THAT END LIKE LOPOLITH

aerolith · cyclolith · enterolith · eolith · granolith · microlith · neolith · oolith · otolith · palaeolith · paleolith · peristalith · phacolith · pisolith · rhinolith · sialolith · statolith · tallith · urolith · zoolith

Synonyms and antonyms of lopolith in the English dictionary of synonyms

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LOPOLITH»

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An Introduction to Physical Geography
Lopolith : Lopolith is concordant igneous body found between two layers of the rocks. Its shape is just reverse of laccolith. When magma is accumulated in synclinal depression formed between two horizontal layers at the time of unsuccessful ...
Nizamuddin Khan, 2002
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United States Geological Survey Professional Paper
Grout 64 considers the subsidence of the roof of the Duluth gabbro laccolith or lopolith a factor in the formation of the Lake Superior syncline. Hotchkiss 65 likewise considers the origin of the syncline to be associated with the igneous activity.
‎1929
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Geological Survey Professional Paper
The lower part of the Keweenawan is invaded by mafic intrusives, the largest being the Duluth Complex northwest of Lake Superior, a lopolith 150 mi (240 km) long and as much as 50,000 ft (15,000 m) thick near its center, injected near the ...
Geological Survey (U.S.), 1976
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Palaeoproterozoic Supercontinents and Global Evolution
The intrusive relationships between the lopolith and country rocks are manifested in the recrystallization and formation of hornfels at the exocontact zone, and in the presence of schist and effusive xenoliths in the lopolith rocks. The Imandra ...
Steven Michael Reddy, 2009
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Precambrian Ore Deposits of the East European and Siberian ...
Sviridenko (1963) discovered coppernickel ores at the base of the lopolith, which were subsequently studied in detail (Sviridenko et al., 1975, 1978). This pluton has similarities with such ore-bearing layered intrusions as Zlatogorsk, Sudbury,  ...
C. Gillen, D.V. Rundqvist, 1997
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The Basics of Earth Science
The second type of batholiths is lopoliths (in Greek lopolith means "saucer"). They may also be lenticular-shaped, as are laccoliths, but they are sunken in their central part due to the sagging of the underlying country rock. Lopoliths can be rich ...
Robert E. Krebs, 2003
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Earth Materials: Introduction to Mineralogy and Petrology
Lopoliths A lopolith (lopas is Greek for “shallow basin”) is a large saucershaped intrusion, which can have a diameter of hundreds of kilometers. The Bushveld Complex in South Africa, the largest known lopolith, has a diameter of about 300  ...
Cornelis Klein, Anthony Philpotts, 2012
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Geology of Titanium-mineral Deposits
Schematic relation of Tellnes and Storgangen deposits and base of Bjerkreim- Sokndal lopolith in NW-SE cross section. Restoration of the latter two to nearly horizontal rotates the Tellnes body to nearly vertical, with a nearly horizontal ...
Eric R. Force, 1991
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Stillwater Igneous Complex, Montana a Quantitative ...
The mechanics Of intrusion of diabase sills below the floor of the lopolith and the chemical relations of the sills to the Bushveld differentiation sequence can also be accounted for by the reasoning of the last paragraph (Fig. 33). The lowest sill ...
H. H. Hess, J. R. Smith, 1960
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B097: Discovery and geology of the Desert Peak geothermal ...
The depositional and structural history of the lopolith is complex. Rocks of the lopolith include intrusives ranging from gabbro to diorite in composition as well as comagmatic extrusive units of basalt. The gabbro complex intruded a syn- tectonic ...
Walter R. Benoit, John E. Hiner, and Robert T. Forest

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Talon Metals Enters Definitive Agreement with Kennecott …
Based on very limited drilling, the Bowl appears to be a gently south tilting bowl shaped lopolith about 8 km long and 2 to 3 km wide, with a total ... «Canada NewsWire, Jun 14»
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