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Magma is typically less dense than the rock it intrudes, widening and filling existing cracks, sometimes melting the already-existing country rock.
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The term "country rock" is similar to, and in many cases interchangeable with, the terms
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of a region in relation to the rock which is being discussed or observed.
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The heat of the intrusions usually changes the country rock, often to
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action can be described as a veneer on the (older) country rock.
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When country rock is intruded by a dike, perpendicular to the
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of rock which formed when magma forced upward through
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Index

Country rock

Devonian
Silurian
Ordovician
igneous intrusion
volcanic eruption
geology
rock
viscous
magma
rock salt
salt domes
sediments

dike
Baranof Island
Alaska
basement
wall rocks
lithology
pluton
dike
bedding plane
sill
magma
igneous body
fractures
overlying rock
xenolith

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