abyssolith
abyssolith
[ə′bis·ō‚lith] (geology)
A molten mass of eruptive material passing up without a break from the zone of permanently molten rock within the earth.
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Because it cannot be plumbed, every batholith is also an
abyssolith. The first word's long vowels and whispery consonants bring the ocean to my ear.
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