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autointrusion (aw" toh in TROO zhuhn) (s) (noun), autointrusions (pl)
In geology, a process that takes place when the liquid of a different magma or the melted solid crystals or mantle rocks are drawn into rifts or openings formed at a later stage of volcanic actions: A series of injections or autointrusions of melted fluids of rocks that go into fissures, or narrow cracks or openings, of earlier crystallized minerals.
This entry is located in the following units: auto-, aut- (page 12) -sion, -sions (page 1) trud-, -trude, trus-, -trusion (page 1)