Intrusive Contact, sill intruding dolomite of the Helena Formation, Glacier National Park, Montana.

The dark band in the cliff face is the Purcell Sill, a diorite sill that intrudes dolomite of the Proterozoic Belt Supergroup in Glacier National Park. Note the bleached zone on either side of the sill from contact metamorphism during intrusion.

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