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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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The delegation is particularly interested in the area occupied by four sedimentary basins and a small inlier of granitoids basement.
At the base of the erosional hollow, an inlier of Jurassic rocks crops out below the late Cimmerian unconformity.
Estimates for the age of the inlier range between 1200 and 900 million years.
Amphibolite and blueschist-greenschist facies metamorphism, Blue Montain inlier, eastern Jamaica, Geological Journal.
Good slates are quarried at Kilmoganny, in the Silurian inlier on the Slievenaman range.
Complex histories of polymetamorphism and reactivation have been reported for the Reynolds and Anmatjira Ranges in the Arunta inlier.

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