Diapir vs Taxonomy - What's the difference?
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(geology) An intrusion of a ductile rock into an overburden.
* 1989 , Nigel Henbest, "
* 1994 , Peter Olson, "Mechanics of Flood Basalt Magmatism", in Magmatic Systems (ed. Michael P. Ryan), Academic Press (1994), ISBN 0126050708,
* 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth: An Intimate History , HarperCollins (2010), ISBN 9780007373338,
The science or the technique used to make a classification.
A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
(taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
As nouns the difference between diapir and taxonomy
is that diapir is (geology) an intrusion of a ductile rock into an overburden while taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification.diapir
English
(wikipedia diapir)Noun
(en noun)Geologists hit back at impact theory of extinctions", New Scientist , 29 April 1989:
- "If a diapir is outside an established plume it rises at a much slower rate," Loper says.
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- This final stage is characterized by the cooling and resolidification of the partially molten diapir within the mantle, slow subsidence at the surface, and greatly diminished rates of crustal addition.
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- Deeply buried deposits of sea-salt dome upwards and pass through the overlying strata, as a kind of intrusive lobe, eventually emerging at the surface – the rising tongue is called a diapir .
