Intrusive rock is formed when magma penetrates existing rock, crystallizes, and solidifies underground to form intrusions, such as batholiths, dikes, sills, laccoliths, and volcanic necks.However, dikes of basaltic composition often show grain sizes intermediate between plutonic and volcanic rock, and are classified as diabases or dolerites.Rare ultramafic hypabyssal rocks called lamprophyres have their own classification scheme.These differences show the influence of the physical conditions under which crystallization takes place.[13] Intrusions vary widely, from mountain-range-sized batholiths to thin veinlike fracture fillings of aplite or pegmatite.
Devils Tower
, United States, an igneous
intrusion
exposed when the surrounding softer rock eroded away