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Dike and volcanic neck, Ship Rock, NM |
Dike cutting through Entrada Sandstone (Jr), Capitol Reef National Park, UT |
Pegmatite dikes intrude gneiss near Concord, NH |
Seidling Hill roadcut near Hancock, MD exposes a syncline in the Valley and Ridge province of the Appalachians |
Banded Iron Formation, Mingus Mountain, AZ |
Folded Banded Iron Formation Ispheming MI |
Nonconformity with Cambrian Potsdam Sandstone overlying Precambrian Geiss at Alexandria Bay, NY |
Pegmatite dike (left) intrudes granite host rock, creating a fine grained chill zone (center), Llano,TX |
Right lateral strike-slip offset on the San Andreas Fault Zone, CA |
Basalt (black rock) intrudes into granite. Notice how the basalt crystals get larger away from the contact. |
Rocks are highly distorted by movement along the San Andreas strike slip fault near Palmdale, CA |
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