These extrusive rocks are formed from magma at or above the surface of the planet, and generally display smaller mineral crystals, or no crystals at all, because of the rapid cooling environment in which they form. Chemically, an intrusive and extrusive rock could be identical, the only difference being the size of the mineral crystals they contain
why are sill and lava flow important to geologists who reconstruct geologic history?
only the sedimentary rock on one side of a buried lava flow will have been metamorphosed, while the rock on both sides of a sill will have been metamorphpsed
The Palisade sill was formed at the end of the Triassic period. Scientists are still debating how it was formed, but it appears to have been made by a single huge lava flow that occurred as the monster continent of Pangea broke up.
it is a sill
A Sill is formed when a fluid rock (usually magma but it can be mud or salt) is squeezed in between the layers (usually horizontal) of older rocks before it solidifies in place. A Dike or Dyke is the opposite, here the fluid rock penetrates across the layering of the older rocks. Logically to get the material to form a Sill there must be an accompanying feeder Dyke.
There tends to be five main parts that make up a volcano. They include the magma chamber, the main vent, lava, the crater, and the pyroclastic flow , which is fast moving flow of hot gas and rock.
The first 3 are types of igneous intrusion. A Sill is magma inserted between bedding planes in a horizontal manner. A Laccolith is like a Sill but is lense shaped and domes up the overlying sediments where it is thickest (the lower boundary remains flat). A Dike is magma intruded vertically across bedding planes. A lava plateau is different as that forms where lava breaks through to the Earth's surface and floods over it horizontally, forming a large, flat area of land created by lava filling in all the valleys and other depressions.
The Palisade sill was formed at the end of the Triassic period. Scientists are still debating how it was formed, but it appears to have been made by a single huge lava flow that occurred as the monster continent of Pangea broke up.
Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Geronimo is buried at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
it is a sill
A Sill is formed
Forms of igneous rock are usually made. It is also known as lava rock and volcanic rock
A Sill is formed when a fluid rock (usually magma but it can be mud or salt) is squeezed in between the layers (usually horizontal) of older rocks before it solidifies in place. A Dike or Dyke is the opposite, here the fluid rock penetrates across the layering of the older rocks. Logically to get the material to form a Sill there must be an accompanying feeder Dyke.
dyke - verticall lava through a rock. sill - horizontall lava through a rock. pillow lavas - pillows sold in asda which support your gullable head as you sleep.
There tends to be five main parts that make up a volcano. They include the magma chamber, the main vent, lava, the crater, and the pyroclastic flow , which is fast moving flow of hot gas and rock.
The first 3 are types of igneous intrusion. A Sill is magma inserted between bedding planes in a horizontal manner. A Laccolith is like a Sill but is lense shaped and domes up the overlying sediments where it is thickest (the lower boundary remains flat). A Dike is magma intruded vertically across bedding planes. A lava plateau is different as that forms where lava breaks through to the Earth's surface and floods over it horizontally, forming a large, flat area of land created by lava filling in all the valleys and other depressions.
Geronimo, the famous Native American leader and Apache warrior, is buried at Chief's Knoll cemetery in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Geronimo fought against the U.S. government's policies towards Native Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
mama travels through volcanoes in what they call a vent