Thursday, November 24, 2011

Pool of magma that collect beneath the Earth's surface form a structure called ________ [FULL QUESTION INSIDE]

Pools of magma that collect beneath the earth's surface, lift rock layers, and soliidify form a structure called a what????





A) pluton


B) volcano


C) batholith


D) monocline|||batholith





A batholith (from Greek bathos, depth + lithos, rock) is a large emplacement of igneous intrusive (also called plutonic) rock that forms from cooled magma deep in the Earth's crust. Batholiths are almost always made mostly of felsic or intermediate rock-types, such as granite, quartz monzonite, or diorite (see also granite dome).





Man do I like wiki!!!|||C batholith|||C|||c|||A|||c. batholith

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