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Example sentences for "intrusions"

Lexicographically close words:
intruders; intrudes; intruding; intrusion; intrusionists; intrusive; intrust; intrusted; intrusting; intrusts
  1. One of these was a bill introduced into the Senate for preserving peace with the Indians, by protecting them from the intrusions and incursions of the whites.

  2. Of these unwelcome intrusions upon his time Washington thus complained to an intimate military friend.

  3. Something has already been said about their resistance to the intrusions of ecclesiastical courts and their objection to appointments of foreigners to Spanish benefices.

  4. Even Alfonso XI, who (though somewhat immoral in private life) was very pious and notably generous with churches and monasteries, was very strict in guarding the rights of the state against the intrusions of the church.

  5. Would any single measure be so effective in removing all plausible grounds for these intrusions as the graduation of price already suggested?

  6. It would seem, therefore, to be the part of wisdom and sound policy to remove as far as practicable the causes which produce intrusions upon the public lands, and then take efficient steps to prevent them in future.

  7. Before his persistent intrusions and his mobility, the earth has no longer any really segregated districts where a strongly divergent type of the man animal might develop.

  8. With these we include, for convenience, intrusions of molten rock which have been driven upward into the crust, but which may not have succeeded in breaking way to the surface and establishing a volcano.

  9. Such intrusions are accompanied --whether as cause or as effect is still hardly known--by deformations, and their masses of igneous rock are thus found as the core of many great mountain ranges.

  10. Intrusions give rise to fissures, dikes, and intrusive sheets, and these dislocations cannot fail to produce earthquakes.

  11. The condition of this body of crystalline rocks is due to the fact that they have suffered not only from the faultings, foldings, and igneous intrusions of their time, but necessarily, also, from those of all later geological ages.

  12. Like bosses, regional intrusions give off dikes and sheets and greatly change the rocks about them by their heat.

  13. Rocks beneath a lava flow or in contact with igneous intrusions are found to be metamorphosed to various degrees by the heat of the cooling mass.

  14. The waters which deposit vein stones and ores are commonly hot, and in many cases they have derived their heat from intrusions of igneous rock still uncooled within the crust.

  15. Mid Wales is built up, for the most part, of Silurian or Ordovician rocks, practically free from igneous intrusions except in the south-west.

  16. The central and most picturesque part of the district is formed of great masses of volcanic ashes and tuffs, with intrusions of basalts and granite, all of Ordovician (Lower Silurian) age.

  17. In addition to the intrusions of the various classes just referred to there are others on a far larger scale, examples of which occur in North America, but as yet their mode of origin has been but little studied.

  18. All the various phases of intrusions thus far referred to, it will be readily seen, are variations of one process.

  19. Fissures have been filled with molten rock injected from below so as to form dikes, and possibly still greater or regional intrusions have occurred.

  20. Intrusions of this nature are sometimes expanded in their upper portions into a more or less mushroom shape, and from their fancied resemblance to cisterns of once molten rock within older terranes have been termed laccoliths.

  21. Other similar intrusions in Colorado have been studied by Whitman Cross, and yet other examples have been discovered in various parts of the Pacific mountains.

  22. As the stratification so marked in sedimentary beds is lacking in metamorphosed rocks, it is not to be expected that intrusions will take the form of sheets, laccoliths, etc.

  23. There are extensive regions throughout which the rocks have been changed in a manner similar to the alterations commonly found adjacent to igneous intrusions which, in general, have been brought about in some other way.

  24. The exceptions, where metamorphosed rocks do not occur beneath sedimentary or volcanic beds, are when igneous intrusions or ancient lava-flows are present at a depth.

  25. At times intrusions of this nature are of such thickness that they produce true mountain forms.

  26. These intrusions did not reach the surface in such a way as to form volcanoes, but were forced upward, raising domes above them, in which the structure is similar to that in the great Black Hills dome.

  27. There is an intimate and even a genetic connection between intrusions on the one hand and volcanic and fissure eruptions on the other.

  28. The bedding planes of stratified rocks are wedged apart and tongues of granite have been injected into them, while cracks have been opened up and filled with intrusions in the shape of igneous veins.

  29. Such granite intrusions are generally known as bosses from their rounded surfaces, and the frequency with which they form flattish dome-shaped hills, rising above the older rocks surrounding them.

  30. In general, however, it is found in well-defined fissure veins in the outer parts of granitic intrusions and extending out into the surrounding rocks.

  31. The deposits of Cornwall and of Saxony show transitions from cassiterite veins close to the intrusions into lead-silver veins at a greater distance.

  32. Here a large batholith of Tertiary granite was intruded by porphyry dikes; and faulting, accompanying and following the intrusions of the dikes, developed numerous fissures.

  33. Also, igneous intrusions may crowd and mash the adjacent rocks, at the same time changing them by heat and contributions of new materials.

  34. Later igneous intrusions or the ordinary ground-waters may bring in minerals which locally enrich ores under anamorphic conditions, but these are relatively minor effects.

  35. For many hundreds of yards the rocks adjacent to the intrusions may be metamorphosed almost beyond recognition.

  36. Some investigators of these ores believe them to have been introduced into the conglomerate and sand by later solutions, possibly by hot solutions related to certain diabase intrusions that cut the beds.

  37. Repeated intrusions on the major, when the governess happened to be in the same room with him, failed to discover the slightest impropriety of word, look, or action, on either side.

  38. Such intrusions are accompanied--whether as cause or as effect is still hardly known--by deformations, and their masses of igneous rock are thus found as the core of many great mountain ranges.

  39. There were after the introduction of bronze working, as has been indicated, intrusions of aliens.

  40. In a country like Britain, subjected in early times to periodic intrusions of peoples from different areas, the process of "culture mixing" must have been active and constant.

  41. There were definite reasons for early intrusions as there were for the Roman invasion.

  42. In England, as a result of Teutonic intrusions and conquests, Christianity and Romano-British culture had been suppressed.

  43. The intrusions of energetic minorities may have caused changes of languages and habits of life, but in time the alien element has been absorbed.

  44. It does not follow that all intrusions were those of conquerors.

  45. As we have seen, there were only two or three intrusions from the Continent between the periods when the bronze and iron industries were introduced--that is, during about a thousand years.

  46. Fricker prepared to say something severe--these unlicensed intrusions were a sore offence.

  47. Hostile Indians troubled the border, and the intrusions of English, French, and Dutch colonies into the Lesser Antilles awakened fears for the safety of the western Gulf shores.

  48. By this time renewed French intrusions into New Mexico were becoming alarming.

  49. These intrusions of Frenchmen into New Mexico were closely bound up in their effect on Spanish policy, with similar infringements upon the Texas border.

  50. Johnny was seized by a literary ambition that completely absorbed what mind he had, and made his school studies seem to him impertinent intrusions upon the attention of one absorbed in higher things.

  51. Further details respecting the Turk intrusions into Eastern Europe still stand over.

  52. The central parts only are Majiar--Majiar meaning the population which speaks the Majiar language, which originated in Asia, and which in the tenth century effected intrusions and conquests in Hungary, just as the Osmanlis did in Rumelia.

  53. Or the same class of Turk intrusions which introduced it into Europe, may have done the same in Persia; and this is not unlikely.

  54. But the most important igneous masses are the great intrusions of syenitic granite and of basic rock which penetrate the Cretaceous beds.

  55. Though consisting mainly of biotite granite, these later intrusions pass by intermediate stages into diorite, as in the area between Balmoral and the head-waters of the Gairn.

  56. There is no axial zone of gneiss, but intrusions of granite and other plutonic rocks occur, and the famous ore deposits are found chiefly near the contact of these intrusions with the schists.

  57. In northern Africa a continuous sequence of volcanic events has taken place from Eocene times to latest Tertiary; but in South Africa it is doubtful if there have been any intrusions later then Cretaceous.

  58. The injustice of such intrusions and the mischievous consequences which must necessarily result therefrom demand that effectual provision be made to prevent them.

  59. When it commits these intrusions itself it is the greatest of malefactors.

  60. When it commits these intrusions itself, it is the greatest of malefactors.

  61. If the State exists it is to prevent all intrusions into private life, the beliefs, the conscience, the property.

  62. His name is John;" and with that brief stroke of his pen Zacharias half rebukes these intrusions and interferences of the relatives, and at the same time makes avowal of his own faith.

  63. Hence, the intrusions of the mediquillo and of the matandá (the old man) who with true enchantments and superstitious remedies cures the poor sick people, cannot be combated with efficacy.

  64. The later intrusions are represented by the Ben Rinnes mass of granite and its basic modification, the Netherly diorite, east of Rothes.

  65. Veins and bosses of serpentine are associated with these basic intrusions at Portsoy and near Grange, one of the veins being traceable at intervals from the shore southwards in the direction of Knock Hill.


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