"host-rock" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1968, Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa, page 148",
          "text": "Their exact relationship to the host-rock is obscure but from their texture and observed metamorphic relationship they are thought to be intrusive dykes rather than intercalations of more basic lava.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Olivier Lacombe, Jérôme Lavé, Francois M. Roure, Thrust Belts and Foreland Basins, page 99",
          "text": "The column dif δ¹⁸O indicates the difference between de δ¹⁸O of the calcite cement in the veins and its adjacent host-rock.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, S. Ferrero, P. Lanari, P. Goncalves, Metamorphic Geology: Microscale to Mountain Belts, page 72",
          "text": "We simplify the concept of thermodynamic equilibrium by assuming that 100% of the melt will be in thermodynamic equilibrium with a fixed weight fraction of the host-rock it travels through.",
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        "Alternative form of host rock"
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  "word": "host-rock"
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        {
          "ref": "1968, Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa, page 148",
          "text": "Their exact relationship to the host-rock is obscure but from their texture and observed metamorphic relationship they are thought to be intrusive dykes rather than intercalations of more basic lava.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Olivier Lacombe, Jérôme Lavé, Francois M. Roure, Thrust Belts and Foreland Basins, page 99",
          "text": "The column dif δ¹⁸O indicates the difference between de δ¹⁸O of the calcite cement in the veins and its adjacent host-rock.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, S. Ferrero, P. Lanari, P. Goncalves, Metamorphic Geology: Microscale to Mountain Belts, page 72",
          "text": "We simplify the concept of thermodynamic equilibrium by assuming that 100% of the melt will be in thermodynamic equilibrium with a fixed weight fraction of the host-rock it travels through.",
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        }
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        "Alternative form of host rock"
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