Ductile vs Diapir - What's the difference?
ductile | diapir |
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.
(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,
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)Synonyms
* (molded easily) flexible, plastic, pliant; see also * (led easily) tractableAntonyms
* (capable of being pulled into thin wire) brittleCoordinate terms
* malleableSee also
* elastic ----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 .