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The Iron Dike Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Tahosa and Sons: Cache has been removed and will be re-placed in CO.
Thanks to those that visited it, hope to see you in its new location

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Hidden : 3/2/2010
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Yes it is there, 'tween the new and old road. On a nice chunk of large Talus. Have fun.

Knowledge of maps and route planning will be helpful in your quest


Iron Dike

An intrusive dike is an igneous body with a very high aspect ratio, which means that its thickness is usually much smaller than the other two dimensions. Thickness can vary from sub-centimeter scale to many meters and the lateral dimensions can extend over many kilometers.

A dike is an intrusion into an opening cross-cutting fissure, shouldering aside other pre-existing layers or bodies of rock; this implies that a dike is always younger than the rocks that contain it.
Dikes are usually high angle to near vertical in orientation, but subsequent tectonic deformation may rotate the sequence of strata through which the dike propagates so that the latter becomes horizontal.
Near horizontal or conformable intrusions along bedding planes between strata are called intrusive sills.

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