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Definition of Intrusive

Intrusive
Intrusive In*tru"sive, a. Apt to intrude; characterized by intrusion; entering without right or welcome. Intrusive rocks (Geol.), rocks which have been forced, while in a plastic or melted state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks. The term is sometimes used as equivalent to plutonic rocks. It is then contrasted with effusive or volcanic rocks.

Meaning of Intrusive from wikipedia

- Look up intrusive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Intrusive may refer to: Intrusiveness, a typically unwelcome behavior, interrupting and disturbing...
- An intrusive thought is an unwelcome, involuntary thought, image, or unpleasant idea that may become an obsession, is upsetting or distressing, and can...
- Intrusiveness can refer to a behavior, act, state or disposition towards being intrusive, interrupting and disturbing to others. Intrusiveness is typically...
- Intrusive rock is formed when magma penetrates existing rock, crystallizes, and solidifies underground to form intrusions, such as batholiths, ****s,...
- An intrusive suite is a group of plutons related in time and space. All rocks in an intrusive suite result from the same magma-producing event. Extrusive...
- Linking R and intrusive R are sandhi phenomena where the rhotic consonant is pronounced as sound /r/ between two consecutive vowels with the purpose of...
- composition. Solidification into rock occurs either below the surface as intrusive rocks or on the surface as extrusive rocks. Igneous rock may form with...
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- feldspar Anorthosite – Mafic intrusive igneous rock composed predominantly of plagioclase Aplite – Fine-grained intrusive igneous rock type similar to...