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CLASTIC DYKE [1 record]

Record 1 2012-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
DEF

A tabular body of clastic material transecting the bedding of a sedimentary formation, representing extraneous material that has invaded the containing formation along a crack, either from below or from above.

Key term(s)
  • clastic dyke

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
DEF

Filon résultant du remplissage d'une fissure.

CONT

Il arrive parfois, lors d'un tremblement de terre, qu'une couche de sable gorgée d'eau jaillisse à travers les fissures du terrain surincombant, déterminant des jaillissements temporaires de boue, ou d'eau chargée de débris [...] Après la fin du séisme, du sable doit subsister dans ces fissures, qui donnent naissance à des «filons clastiques».

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