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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.


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?

When magma hardens between layers of rock, it forms intrusive igneous rock structures known as dikes or sills. Dikes cut across the existing rock layers, while sills form parallel to them. These formations are typically formed when magma solidifies underground before reaching the surface.


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)


Lava that cuts across rock layers hardens to form a feature called?

a dike. Dikes are vertical or near-vertical igneous intrusions that cut across the existing rock layers. They form when magma is forced into fractures and then cools and solidifies underground.


What type of feature can form when magma hardens between horizontal layers of rock?

A concordant intrusive igneous feature like a sill can form when magma hardens between horizontal layers of rock. Sills are tabular bodies that are parallel to the surrounding rock layers.


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 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 magma that hardens after being forced into a crack across rock?

Magma that hardens after being forced into a crack across rock is called a dike.