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wall rock definition

☆ wall rock

Geol., Mining the rock mass on either side of a fault or vein

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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