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Clastic Dike

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Definition

Tabular body, crosscut subvertical sheets of sediments within a contrasting sedimentary or the crystalline rock type.

Category

A type of dike.

A proposed origin of some of the intracrater linear ridge types (various origins) on Mars.

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Dike (US), dyke (UK)

Description

Discordant subvertical sheets, tabular bodies of clastic sediments, which accumulate either “passively” by deposition into preexisting fissures or “dynamically” by fracturing the country rock and injection of clastic material during overpressure buildup (Levi et al. 2006). The clastic dikes are generally opening mode (mode I) fractures. At map view, the geometry of clastic dike swarms can be chaotic, linear, en echelon, subparallel, or radial (Marco et al. 2002). Dike width may range from several mm up to several m (Figs. 1 and 2).

Clastic Dike, Fig. 1
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Three disconnected, partially overlapping dike segments close to the Ami’az Plain (Israel) surface. Similar to magmatic dikes, this geometry hints at the...

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    Henrik Hargitai

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    Tsafrir Levi

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Hargitai, H., Levi, T. (2015). Clastic Dike. In: Hargitai, H., Kereszturi, Á. (eds) Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3134-3_99

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