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Download Solution PDFBatholiths are landforms created by:
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Download Solution PDF- A Batholith is a large body of igneous rock formed beneath the Earth's surface by the intrusion and solidification of magma.
- They appear on the surface only after the denudational processes remove the overlying materials.
- These are granitic bodies and are the cooled portion of magma chambers.
- Lacoliths are large dome-shaped intrusive bodies with a level base and connected by a pipe-like channel from below.
- Phcaolith is an elongated dome of intrusive igneous rock usually located beneath the crest of an anticline or the trough of a syncline.
- The near horizontal bodies of the intrusive igneous rocks are called sill or sheet, depending on the thickness of the material.
- The thinner ones are called sheets while the thick horizontal deposits are called sills.
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