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).
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