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Intrusive Volcanic Structures
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Batholith
- granite
- slowly cools
- Volcanoes
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Dike
- brings lava to surface
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Laccolith
- mound of lava
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Loppolith
- upsidedown laccolith
- Sill
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What
- extrusive
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Volcanic
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lava
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low silica
- ropy
- runny
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cooling cinders
- clinkery
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Magma solidifies
- on earth's surface
- Near earth's surface
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How
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flows through cracks
- cools
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contracts
- splits into columns
- basic lava
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Giant's Causeway
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Antrim
- 65 million Ya
- 4000 SQ
- 800 M deep
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Extrusive Volcanic Structure
- 400 meters eroded
- heagonal columns
- Plateau
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formed
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plates pulled apart
- American
- European
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crust stretched
- cracks
- lava flowed
- Lava cooled quickly
- lasted 2 million Y
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eroded by sea
- edges
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cliffs
- undercut
- easily