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Which is older-rock layer a (an intrusion) or the pieces of rock contained within it?

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Beneath the surface, magma may push into bodies of rock. There, the magma cools and hardens into a mass of igneous rock called an intrusion. An intrusion is always younger than the rock layers around and beneath it.
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