traprock


traprock:

see Triassic periodTriassic period
, first period of the Mesozoic era of geologic time (see Geologic Timescale, table) from 205 to 250 million years ago.

Throughout the Triassic, E North America, as a result of the mountain-building episode that formed the Appalachians in the late Paleozoic
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traprock

A dark-colored igneous rock having a fine-grained, more or less columnar structure.

trap

2, traprock1. any fine-grained often columnar dark igneous rock, esp basalt 2. any rock in which oil or gas has accumulated