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imowrer

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Distinguish among batholiths, stocks, and laccoliths in terms of size and shape.
 
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Describe dikes and sills using the appropriate terms from the following list: massive, discordant, tabular, and concordant.
 
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Answer to Question 1

Batholiths are the largest of the igneous intrusive bodiesthey are massive. Stocks are also massive and are the next largest. Laccoliths are sort of mushroom-cap shaped, generally concordant at their base, discordant at the mushroom cap, and the smallest of these three bodies.

Answer to Question 2

A dike is a tabular, discordant intrusive igneous body. A sill is a tabular, concordant, tabular body.



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