Question

What are dikes, sills, and laccoliths?

A. different types of sedimentary rock
B. vertical and horizontal colors of rock
C. Intrusions of igneous rock in sedimentary layers beneath Earth's surface
D. different types of metamorphic rock embedded into rock layers

Answer 1

Plutons

Answer 2

These are all different types of volcanic land formations. Dikes are when the lava is running perpendicular to the earth. Laccoliths are rocks that have come between the rock to cause uplifts and sills are when the lava runs parallel to the earth.

Answer 3

A pluton in geology is a body of intrusive igneous rock (called a plutonic rock) that crystallised from magma slowly cooling below the surface of the Earth.

Answer 4

Plutons include batholiths, dikes, sills, laccoliths, lopoliths, and other igneous bodies.