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Ductile vs Diapir - What's the difference?

ductile | diapir |

As an adjective ductile

is capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking.

As a noun diapir is

(geology) an intrusion of a ductile rock into an overburden.

ductile

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking.
  • Molded easily into a new form.
  • (rare) Led easily; prone to follow.
  • Synonyms

    * (molded easily) flexible, plastic, pliant; see also * (led easily) tractable

    Antonyms

    * (capable of being pulled into thin wire) brittle

    Coordinate terms

    * malleable

    See also

    * elastic ----

    diapir

    English

    (wikipedia diapir)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology) An intrusion of a ductile rock into an overburden.
  • * 1989 , Nigel Henbest, " 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.
  • * 1994 , Peter Olson, "Mechanics of Flood Basalt Magmatism", in Magmatic Systems (ed. Michael P. Ryan), Academic Press (1994), ISBN 0126050708, page 12:
  • 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.
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth: An Intimate History , HarperCollins (2010), ISBN 9780007373338, unnumbered page:
  • 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 .

    Derived terms

    * diapiric