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How deep into Earth’s surface might a very massive batholith extend?

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less than 1 meter in the crust .

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Answer:

Many kilometers into the crust

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A batolith is a large intrusive plutonic body with an outcropping (or potential erosion outcropping) area that can extend for many miles into the earth's crust. More simply, we can say that the batolith is a gigantic mass of rock, which was formed by the cooling of the magma upon reaching the earth's crust. Batoliths are rich in felsic rocks, granite, quartzomonzonite or diorite.

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