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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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where?
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plates
- destructive boundaries
- subducted plate melts
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Batholith
- when cooled
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componants
- Mica
- Quartz
- Feldspar
- Silica
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What
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Intrusive
- most common
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Caledonian
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fold mountains
- Greatly eroded
- granite exposed
- 400 million YA
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how
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magma
- raises
- buckled folds
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cools
- deep
-
weathered
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forms Kaolin
- clay
- pottery