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Q: What forms when magma flows in a horizontal direction?
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This forms when magma flows in a horizontal direction along rock layers?

Sill forms when magma flows in a horizontal direction along rock layers.


What happens when magma flows in a horizontal direction along rock layers?

The magma forms sills and magma chambers.


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 may happen to magma that does not reach earth surface?

It dries then if other magma goes in the same direction as the old magma it sometimes reheats it then it flows toward the surface


Does A dome mountain forms when rising magma is blocked by horizontal layers of rocktrue or false?

false


Magma that hardens vertically underneath the surface will form a sill?

No. A sill forms when magma hardens parallel to the rock layers, which is usually horizontal. When magam hardens vertically, it forms a dike.


Formed when magma is squeezed into horizontal crack between layers of rock and hardens undergroud?

It forms a sill.


Magma may flow or it can?

Magma always flows.


When lava flows and cools on Earth's surface it forms what kind of rock?

Igneous rock is formed through the cooling and solidificatio of magma or lava.


What forms when magma flows horizontally along rock layers?

A form of igneous intrusion known as a Sil.


Magma flows in the mantle like a river and can form magma pools?

true


What is the process on how magma flows inside and outside a volcano?

First, the magma breaks open rocks underneath the volcano. Then, it flows up through cracks of the volcano. After it is all the way to the top, the volcano erupts. Then the magma and lava flows outside the volcano.