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Granite comprising Stone Mountain crystallized from magma tens of kilometers within the Earth, but uplift and erosion has since laid this pluton bare. Assuming that erosion has only slightly modified the original shape of the more durable granite body, which of the igneous rock bodies in Figure 4.5 does Stone Mountain most closely resemble?
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Stone Mountain most closely resembles the tabular intrusions in Figure 4.5. This is because the pluton is flat-surfaced and wide, indicating that it was formed when magma cooled slowly and evenly within the Earth. It also has visible layering which is typical of tabular intrusions.
