This would probably be a batholith.
The Batholith would be the larger feature.
Stock Batholith
A batholith usually has a surface area greater than 100 square kilometers, or 38 square miles. This batholith doesn't seem very stable to me...
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batholith
This would probably be a batholith.
any color because stone mountain is a batholith
The Batholith would be the larger feature.
A batholith is not necessarily in a volcano, but it is definitely involved with them. When a large body of magma cools inside the Earth's crust, creating a bed of volcanic rock, this is called a batholith. This can be a magma chamber or otherwise.
Stock Batholith
A batholith usually has a surface area greater than 100 square kilometers, or 38 square miles. This batholith doesn't seem very stable to me...
The largest of all igneous intrusions is called a batholith. Batholiths are formed by the massive invasion of hot magma into country rock.
No. A volcano cannot become a batholith. A batholith is a mass of rock that forms from magma solidifying underground. Kilauea is a volcano built up from lava that has cooled on the surface.
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A batholith is a plutonic rock that forms in the Earth's crust. A large deposit of granite, diorite, or quartz monzonite are structures or landforms that could be a batholith.
The Sierra Nevada batholith is wonderfully exposed in the granite domes at Yosemite National Park.