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What feature is formed when lava cuts across rock layers and hardens?
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A dike
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Lava that cuts across rock layers hardens to form a feature called?
it is a sill
Magama that hardens between layers of rock?
a still is formed
What type of feature can form when magma hardens between horizontal layers of rock?
Sill (D)
Formed when magma is squeezed into horizontal crack between layers of rock and hardens undergroud?
It forms a sill.
What is a dike in volcano?
A body of magma that cuts through (and across) adjacent rock. Similar to a secondary vent but it does not strike through the surface. It then hardens and forms rock. It is always younger than the rocks which surround it.
What is the feature that is formed when lava cuts across rock layers and hardens?
Lava that cuts across rock layers hardens to form a feature called a Dike.
What is lava cuts through rock layers and then hardens to form a feature called?
Lava that cuts across rock layers hardens to form a disk.
Lava that cuts across rock layers hardens to form a feature called?
it is a sill
What is formed when magma that is squeezed into a generally vertical crack that cuts across layers and hardens?
That would be a type of igneous intrusion known as a dike.
Magama that hardens between layers of rock?
a still is formed
How is it that crosscutting feature is always younger than the rock layers in cuts across?
A crosscutting feature is always younger than the rock layers it cuts through because the feature always forms after the rock layers have been formed, making the rock layers older.
What type of feature can form when magma hardens horizontal layers of rock?
Sill (D)
How is it that crosscuting feature is always younger than the rock layer it cuts across?
A crosscutting feature is always younger than the rock layers it cuts through because the feature always forms after the rock layers have been formed, making the rock layers older.
What type of feature can form when magma hardens between horizontal layers of rock?
Sill (D)
What feature forms when magma cuts across layers?
feature a and b
Formed when magma is squeezed into horizontal crack between layers of rock and hardens undergroud?
It forms a sill.
What is a dike in volcano?
A body of magma that cuts through (and across) adjacent rock. Similar to a secondary vent but it does not strike through the surface. It then hardens and forms rock. It is always younger than the rocks which surround it.
