lacolith
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of laccolith.
Example Sentences
- "The character of the anomalies observed over the lacoliths in Sao Paulo and over dikes and sills in the states of Sao Paulo, Parana and Santa Catharina are quite different from the characteristics of the anomalies under consideration."
- "He has observed that bodies of trachyte are associated with the arches or chambers of all these lacoliths and that the trachytes are not only of one lithologic type, but are "so closely related that a collection of rock specimens representing all the above-named groups would show scarecely more variety than a collection representing the Henry Mountain laccolites."
- "The La Sal mountains are a series of intermediate porphyry stocks with associated lacoliths and domes."
- "The height of the lacolith is given by the value of this function at its highest point, which from inspection is the point x = L/2."