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inlier [′in‚līยทər]
(geology)
A circular or elliptical area of older rocks surrounded by strata that are younger.


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The first appears in the Shelve Inlier, Shropshire, in the lower Caradoc (Sal), with younger Ordovician species from the Staurocephalus Beds in Scania; the second occurs in the late Ashgill of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland, and the English Lake District (Owens 2004).
However, paleomagnctic data suggest a link with the Haig and Sutton Inlier sills (Schwarz and Fujiwara, 1981).
Relative resource weights are calculated by multiplying the inlier average length of stay by the SIW for each case within the group.
 
 
 
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