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What is an inlier?

What is an inlier? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology) An area of older rocks surrounded by younger rocks, typically formed by erosion of part of the younger rock.
  2. (statistics) A value that fits a pattern, rather than being an outlier.
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At the base of the erosional hollow, an inlier of Jurassic rocks crops out below the late Cimmerian unconformity.
Amphibolite and blueschist-greenschist facies metamorphism, Blue Montain inlier, eastern Jamaica, Geological Journal.
In contrast, mafic and felsic intrusive rocks in the Coal Creek inlier are rare.
In Australia there is a large gold province in Victoria and New South Wales and a rich lead-zinc-copper province in western Queensland and the Northern Territory known as the Mt. Isa inlier.
Estimates for the age of the inlier range between 1200 and 900 million years.
Here, inlier rocks are correlated to known sections of basement to the west and southwest.

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