The coal is typically soft bituminous coal, since it has never been compressed by overlying rocks to the degree that would be required to form harder coal.
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Rock units are first emplaced either by deposition onto the surface or intrusion into the sills, push upwards into the overlying rock, and crystallize as they intrude.
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Where & rho; ( z ) is the density of the overlying rock at depth z and g is the datum pressure, the pressure at the surface.
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The caldera has the classic circular shape : the depression formed as overlying rock and soil collapsed into the magma chamber after it was emptied by powerful eruptions.
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The 4-billion-year-old lakebed rock drilled by " Curiosity " was uncovered between 30 million and 110 million years ago by winds which sandblasted away 2 meters of overlying rock.
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The eruption of such a huge quantity of magma emptied the magma chamber beneath the volcano and led to the collapse of the overlying rocks to form the caldera.
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Because sills generally form at shallow depths ( up to many kilometers ) below the surface, the pressure of overlying rock prevents this from happening much, if at all.
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There seems to be some disagreement on where to place the boundary between basement rocks and overlying rocks, and the decision seems to be based on the degree of induration.
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Salt domes are vertical diapirs or pipe-like masses of salt that have been essentially " squeezed up " from underlying salt beds by mobilization due to the weight of overlying rock.
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Diapirs commonly intrude vertically upward along fractures or zones of structural weakness through denser overlying rocks because of density contrast between a less dense, lower rock mass and overlying denser rocks.
