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How Does Magma Affect Land Features? D35. Underground magma can cool and harden in many shapes and forms before it reaches the surface.

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1 How Does Magma Affect Land Features? D35

2 Underground magma can cool and harden in many shapes and forms before it reaches the surface

3 Dike: hardens in vertical cracks Sill: hardens between horizontal layers of rock (flat) Laccolith: Magma pushes into a sill to form a pocket, pushes rock layers up into dome mountains.

4 Dome mountains: broad, circular mountains formed from uplifted rock layers (Black Hills of South Dakota) Batholiths: largest and deepest underground formation- if above sea level it looks like large steep hills

5 Dome Mountain

6 What feature is this? Dome mountain

7 Batholith

8 Dike formation

9 A sill

10 Laccolith


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