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dolerite - use in sentences
Adjective modifier
- tertiary-aged: Tertiary-aged dolerite and felsite dikes occur throughout the area and have a strike of NW-SE.
- Jurassic: It consists of Permian-Triassic sediments, capped by Jurassic dolerite, and generally occurs above about 600m, except in the east.
- spotted: Most of the studied artifacts are of spotted dolerite, a small number being unspotted dolerite.
- intrusive: This series contains the great whin sill, an intrusive quartz dolerite, which is one of the interesting features of local geology.
Modifies a noun
- dike: Throughout the island group basalt and dolerite dikes have eroded to form caves and tunnels above and below the water.
- sill: The alkali olivine dolerite sill at King's Cross Point.
- intrusion: Millions of years ago there was a volcanic dolerite intrusion into the overlying rock.
- plug: An elliptical dolerite plug that was once ths site of a volcano occurs in the southeast side of Carnmoney Hill.
- stone: From the dolerite stone to the northern edge of excavation, the bowling appears to take shape with a drop in depth of 0.10m.
- complex: I also undertook a hydrogeological assessment study of dolerite rings complexes near Queenstown, funded by the South African Water Resources Commission.
Noun used with modifier
- quartz: This series contains the great whin sill, an intrusive quartz dolerite, which is one of the interesting features of local geology.
- olivine: The alkali olivine dolerite sill at King's Cross Point.
- alkali: The alkali olivine dolerite sill at King's Cross Point.
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