Mafic sill and dike intruding foliated marble, Death Valley, California.

These two mafic intrusions nicely demonstrate the difference between dikes and sills. The lower intrusion is the dike, as it cuts across layering (which in this case is foliation in marble); the upper intrusion is the sill, as it runs parallel to the layering.

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