Usually means: Intrusive igneous rock, lens-shaped.
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▸ noun:  (geology) A lens-shaped mass that occurs in an anticlinal crest or synclinal trough.

Similar:
lacolith, phacolite, microlithon, hydrolaccolith, coccolith, cystolith, fecalith, fecolith, autolith, lopadolith, more...

Types:
porphyritic, doleritic, basaltic, trachytic, syenitic, rhyolitic, more...

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Similar:
lacolith, phacolite, microlithon, hydrolaccolith, coccolith, cystolith, fecalith, fecolith, autolith, lopadolith, more...

Types:
porphyritic, doleritic, basaltic, trachytic, syenitic, rhyolitic, more...



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