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What do you understand by the term phacoliths?
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Phacoliths are intrusive igneous rock formations that are wavy in structure and form when magma solidifies on an anticline or at the base of a syncline in the earth’s crust. They are one of the types of intrusive volcanic landforms created when magma cools and solidifies within folded rock layers.
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