Appears to be a fine-grained dioritic dyke rock, but is too dirty and stained to be satisfactorily examined.
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Appears to be a fine-grained dioritic dyke rock, but is too dirty and stained to be satisfactorily examined.
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If the dyke is of great thickness the centre may be coarsely crystalline as a deep-seated plutonic rock and this makes it difficult to distinguish a dyke rock in hand specimen.
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As a dyke is made of igneous rock, it is usually possible to date it by radiometric dating methods, which give an absolute age for the dyke rock.
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