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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.
What is it called when magma forces itself into surrounding underground rock?
It's called an intrusion.Depending on just how the igneous rock (molten rock) enters into the existing rock, you can have dikes, sills, plutons and batholiths.
What is a slab of rock when magma squeezes between layers of rock?
sill
What is sills?
A sill forms by magma being forced into cracks that are parallel to rock layers and harden there. When magma flows between the layers of rock and hardens, a sill forms.
What forms when magma flows horizontally along rock layers?
A form of igneous intrusion known as a Sil.
What is magma sill?
A magma sill is a planar sheet of magma which is parallel to the surrounding rock.
What is the geologic term for a tabular body of igneous rock that is parallel to the surrounding rock layers?
It's called a concordant igneous intrusion, or a sill.
A sheet of volcanic rock that protrudes into the surrounding layers of rock?
It's called a volcanic sill.
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.
Which igneous feature is formed when magma is forced into layers parallel to the surrounding rock layers?
A sill.
Intrusions of the igneous rock are younger or older than the rock layers beneath and surrounding them?
they are younger and extrusions are older. they are younger because the surrounding rock layers had to have been there first in order for it to appear. :)
Is a sill a common sedimentary rock?
yes sill is one of a sedimentary rocks
When magma is forced up in to layers of rocks and hardens layers?
its acutally a dike trust me
What is it called when magma forces itself into surrounding underground rock?
It's called an intrusion.Depending on just how the igneous rock (molten rock) enters into the existing rock, you can have dikes, sills, plutons and batholiths.
What is a horizontal intrusive igneous body that forms between sedimentary rock layers?
An vertical intrusion of magma in a pre-existing rock formation is known as a dike.
What is a slab of rock when magma squeezes between layers of rock?
sill
Slab that forms when magma forces itself across rock layers?
The slab of volcanic rock that is formed when magma forces itself across rock layers is called a dike. This will eventually build into mountains.
