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What is hardened magma squeezed into a horizontal space between rocks?
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Magma squeezed into a horizontal crack between rock layers is?
when magma is squeezed into horizontals craks are called sill
Formed when magma is squeezed into horizontal crack between layers of rock and hardens undergroud?
It forms a sill.
What type of feature can form when magma hardens between horizontal layers of rock?
Sill (D)
How a dome mountain can eventually form out of magma that are hardened beneath earth's surface?
A dome mountains forms when rising magma is blocked by horizontal layers of rock. The magma forces the layers of rock to bend upward into a dome shape. Eventually, the rock above the dome mountain wears away, living it exposed.
Is sill a type of lava flow?
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.
Magma squeezed into a horizontal crack between rock layers is?
when magma is squeezed into horizontals craks are called sill
What is Magma hardened in a horizontal crack?
magma squeezed into a vertical crack is called a dike.
Formed when magma is squeezed into horizontal crack between layers of rock and hardens undergroud?
It forms a sill.
Hardened magma squeezed into vertical spaces are what type of volcano?
igneous dike
Hardened magma squeezed into horizontal spaces between rocks?
dike
What landform is created when magma squeezes between rock layers to forma hardened slab of rock?
If vertical, a dyke; if horizontal, a sill.
Does a dome Mountain from when hardened magma is uplifted and pushes up a horizontal layer of rock?
No.
What is the word for magma squeezed into verticial spaces between rocks?
phoephoe
What is magma squeezed into a horizontally between rock layers?
It's sill or batholith.
When magma squeezes between horizontal lines it forms?
if it squeezes into a fault, its a dike, if it squeezes between horizontal layers, its a sill
What is a hardened layer of magma called?
laccolith
What type of feature can form when magma hardens between horizontal layers of rock?
Sill (D)
