Defenition of the word diapir

• Defenition of the word diapir

  • A structure formed when a matter lighter than its environment moves upward by piercing the overlying material.
  • a domed rock formation where a core of rock has moved upward and pierced through the more brittle overlying strata

Hypernyms for the word diapir

• • formation
  • geological formation

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