batholithn.
/ˈbaθəʊlɪθ/ Geology.
A large dome-shaped mass of intrusive igneous rock without a visible foundation.
ΚΠ
1903 R. A. Daly in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 15 270 ‘Batholiths’..characteristically occur in regions of great structural complexity.
1904 H. B. C. Sollas & W. J. Sollas tr. E. Suess Face of Earth I. i. iv. 168 The magma simply filled the space..forming a cake of rock or true batholite.
1905 T. C. Chamberlin & R. D. Salisbury Geol. I. 477 Great masses of irregular or undetermined forms..are called bathyliths.
1906 T. C. Chamberlin & R. D. Salisbury Geol. II. 131 The Archean batholiths.
1937 S. W. Wooldridge & R. S. Morgan Physical Basis Geogr. viii. 106 The larger bodies of intrusive rock. These are the so-called bathyliths.
1960 L. D. Stamp Britain's Struct. & Scenery (ed. 5) ix. 80 The great igneous bosses or batholiths of plutonic rock..stand up as hill masses.
Derivatives
ˌbathoˈlithic adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [adjective] > intrusive > others
xenolithic1900
batholithic1912
bysmalithic1933
lopolithic1959
1912 R. A. Daly Geol. N. Amer. Cordillera ii. 726 The batholithic axes may have indefinite relations to axes of earlier and later crustal deformation.
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