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Which would you expect to cause the greatest amount of contact metamorphism an intrusion of basaltic magma or an intrusion of rhyolitic magma?
Basaltic magma
Magma that forces its way into rocks and hardens is called a extrusion or fault or unconformity or intrusion?
Magma that forces its way into rocks and hardens is called intrusion.
Each cycle of spreading and intrusion of magma during seafloor spreading results in?
isochron
How does igneous intrusion end up as a hill?
Basically, igneous intrusion involves the solidifying of magma when it cools in the crust of the Earth. When magma rises through the crust, it intrudes into the existing sedimentary rock layers and forms a hill. The surounding rock may be more prone to erosion and wear away leaving the intrusion jutting above the (eroded) surroundings.
What is plutonic intrusion?
it is formed when the magma cools and crystalize underneath the ground
Which would you expect to cause the greatest amount of contact metamorphism an intrusion of basaltic magma or an intrusion of rhyolitic magma?
Basaltic magma
What is ment by the vertical intrusion of magma?
dike
Magma that forces its way into rocks and hardens is called a extrusion or fault or unconformity or intrusion?
Magma that forces its way into rocks and hardens is called intrusion.
What is magma called under the surface of the earth?
An intrusion.
What rock forming process occures when hot magma forces its way into rock?
contact metamorphism
What is it called when magma forces itself into underground rock?
Intrusion.
What is the pocket of magma called under the earths surface?
An intrusion.
Why are there no fossils in a intrusion?
If you mean an intrusion via magma/lava, then fossils would not exist due to the fact that most fossils are found in SEDIMENTARY rock, not IGNEOUS (magma/lava rocks).
The movement of magma through the Earth's crust is known as?
The movement of magma through the Earth's crust is known as intrusion.
An intrusion of magma that flows parallel within a rock is called what?
A sill.
Where is igneous rock in magma intrusion into sedimentary rock?
In dikes and sills.
What is hardened magma squeezed into a horizontal space between rocks?
An intrusion.
