Batholith
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A batholith is a large mass of intrusive igneous rock, larger than 100 km2 in area, that forms from cooled magma deep in the Earth's crust. Batholiths are almost always made mostly of felsic or interm
Half Dome, a quartz monzonite monolith in Yosemite National Park and part of the Sierra Nevada Batholith
The eroded laccolith above the batholith system of Vitosha, the Plana domed mountains, next to Sofia, Bulgaria
Laccolith
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A laccolith is a body of intrusive rock with a dome-shaped upper surface and a level base, fed by a conduit from below. A laccolith forms when magma rising through the Earth's crust begins to spread o
Batholith
…accelerated by frost wedging). The result is fairly clean and rounded rock faces. A well-known result of this process is Half Dome in Yosemite Valley. Laccolith Sill…
Idealized laccolith shape
Dolerite intrusion laccolith in Sydney, Australia
Laccolith exposed by erosion of overlying strata in Montana
Pink monzonite laccolith intrudes within the grey Cambrian and Ordovician strata near Notch Peak, Utah