Diabase Dike in Conejo


In this photo taken along Little Sycamore Canyon Road, the dark, basaltic lava flow rocks of the Conejo Volcanics are intruded by a light-weathering diabase dike. Dikes such as this served as feeder fractures along which melted rock moved to the surface of the volcano to feed the lava flows that moved down the slopes of the volcano.

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