sedimentary dike

A tabular mass of sedimentary material that cuts across the structure or bedding of preexisting rock in the manner of an igneous dike and that is formed by the filling of a crack or fissure by forcible injection or intrusion of sediments under abnormal pressure, or by simple infilling of sediments.

Related terms:

• sedimentary insertion
• neptunian dike
• injection
• Sedimentary Rock
• clastic dike
• sedimentary laccolith
• sand dike
• sedimentary differentiation
• primary sedimentary structure
• Dike