the process by which country rock is broken up and engulfed by the upward movement of magma
Also called: magmatic stoping
stoping in American English
(ˈstoupɪŋ)
noun
Geology
a process by which magmas move upward in the earth by breaking off and engulfing blocks of overlying rocks
Word origin
[1770–80; stope + -ing1]This word is first recorded in the period 1770–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: colonial, crescendo, jungle, red flag, shotgun-ing is a suffix of nouns formed from verbs, expressing the action of the verb or itsresult, product, material, etc. (the art of building; a new building; cotton wadding). It is also used to form nouns from words other than verbs (offing; shirting). Verbal nouns ending in -ing are often used attributively (the printing trade) and in forming compounds (drinking song). In some compounds (sewing machine), the first element might reasonably be regarded as the participial adjective, -ing, the compound thus meaning “a machine that sews,” but it is commonly taken as a verbalnoun, the compound being explained as “a machine for sewing”
Examples of 'stoping' in a sentence
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When stoping or tunnelling approaches this region, the peak stress increases rapidly.
Weiyao Guo, Qingheng Gu, Yunliang Tan, Shanchao Hu 2019, 'Case Studies of Rock Bursts in Tectonic Areas with Facies Change', Energieshttps://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/7/1330. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The stress field and displacement field changes of different sublevel stoping systems were also studied.
Shuai Cao, Weidong Song, Dan Deng, Yuankun Lei, Jianqiang Lan 2016, 'Numerical simulation of land subsidence and verification of its character for an ironmine using sublevel caving', International Journal of Mining Science and Technologyhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095268615002281. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The stoping methods proposed respected all the conclusions of the model geomechanical investigation.
Bauer Viliam, Maras Michal 1999, 'Evaluation of the mining related geoenvironments stability', Acta Montanistica Slovacahttp://actamont.tuke.sk/pdf/1999/n1/3MarasaBauer.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Stoping methods should be applied to receive high indices of ore mass extraction.
Kalinichenko Vsevolod, Pysmennyi Serhii, Shvaher Nataliia, Kalinichenko Olena 2018, 'Selective underground mining of complex structured ore bodies of Kryvyi Rih Iron OreBasin', E3S Web of Conferenceshttps://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20186000041. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The stoping was carried out in two vertically stacked horizontal layers, with a total of 16 stopes.
Gang Huang, Pinnaduwa H.S.W. Kulatilake, Srisharan Shreedharan, Sijing Cai, HongqingSong 2017, '3-D discontinuum numerical modeling of subsidence incorporating ore extraction andbackfilling operations in an underground iron mine in China', International Journal of Mining Science and Technologyhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095268617300617. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)