One of the key reasons for Federation was to achieve a united defence force which could better protect Australia. Around the 1880s, the Australian colonies had become increasingly concerned over the close proximity of foreign powers.
Split and merge into it. Answered by The Community. Making the world better, one answer at a time. Dissolved gases trapped in the magma provides the force that causes magma to erupt to the surface. Magma is molten material before it reaches the surface and is lava.
Magma often collects in magma chambers that may feed a volcano or solidify underground to form an intrusion. Magma is capable of intruding into adjacent rocks (forming igneous dikes and sills), extrusion onto the surface as lava, and explosive ejection as tephra to form pyroclastic rock.