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Author Question: Distinguish among batholiths, stocks, and laccoliths in terms of size and shape. What will be an ... (Read 102 times)

imowrer

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on: Jul 14, 2018
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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Reply #1 on: Jul 14, 2018
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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Reply #2 on: Jul 14, 2018
Correct answers!


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Reply #3 on: Jul 14, 2018
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