A sheeted dyke complex, or sheeted dike complex, is a series of sub-parallel intrusions of igneous rock, forming a layer within the oceanic crust. At...

parallel dykes indicated that the Isua Greenstone Belt represented an ophiolite. The interpretation of the parallel dykes as a sheeted dyke complex was particularly...

dyke swarm Sheet intrusion Sheeted dyke complex Sill swarm Re. Iceland see eg.: A. Gudmundsson: Emplacement and arrest of sheets and dykes in central...

kimberlite pipes is varied, but includes a sheeted dyke complex of tabular, vertically dipping feeder dykes in the root of the pipe, which extends down...

Plateau and the Basin and Range. It consists of a well-developed sheeted dyke complex that grades below into gabbroic rock and above into submarine volcanic...

completeness of the section of oceanic lithosphere. The crust is composed of sheeted dykes, pillow basalts and marine sediments. The sediments are composed of...

mantle series of the Troodos, and contain chromite concentrations. The sheeted dykes show a general tholeiitic trend, of basalts, andesites and dacites....

the spreading center fed by dykes from the underlying magma chamber. Pillow lavas and the related sheeted dyke complexes form part of a classic ophiolite...

In geology, a dike or dyke is a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body. Dikes can be either magmatic or sedimentary in...

undoubtedly hydrostatic. Dike (geology) Igneous intrusion#Dikes Sheeted dyke complex Davies, Richard J.; Huuse, Mads; Hirst, Philip; Cartwright, Joe;...