lacolith

lacolith (plural lacoliths)

1. Alternative form of laccolith
   • 1936, Geophysics, page 43:

     The character of the anomalies observed over the lacoliths in Sao Paulo and over dikes and sills in the states of Sao Paulo, Parana and Santa Catharina are quite different from the characteristics of the anomalies under consideration.

   • 1955, Kathleen Bruÿn, Uranium Country, page 110:

     He has observed that bodies of trachyte are associated with the arches or chambers of all these lacoliths and that the trachytes are not only of one lithologic type, but are "so closely related that a collection of rock specimens representing all the above-named groups would show scarecely more variety than a collection representing the Henry Mountain laccolites.

   • 1970, Clay Taylor Smith, Guidebook to Four Corners, Colorado Plateau, Central Rocky Mountain region:

     The La Sal mountains are a series of intermediate porphyry stocks with associated lacoliths and domes.

   • 2012, James S. Trefil, Introduction to the Physics of Fluids and Solids, →ISBN, page 194:

     The height of the lacolith is given by the value of this function at its highest point, which from inspection is the point x = L/2.