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What do intrusive rock have in common with extrusive rocks?
Sedimentary rocks are not classified by the terms intrusive or extrusive. These are terms used specifically for igneous rock classification, referring to rock that has formed from melt either below or on the surface.
What type of rocks form from lava after a volcanic eruption?
Igneous rocks are formed from the cooling and solidifying of magma. The resulting rock can be instrusive (magma cooling within the crust) and extrusive (lava cooling on the surface). The most common kind of rocks are Granite (intrusive) and Basalt (extrusive).
What is in the formation of igneous rocks but not in formation of metamorphic rocks?
igneous rocks form within earths surface
Is it true that extrusive rocks are formed if the solidification of magma occurs inside the earth?
No. Extrusive igneous rock is formed at or near the surface from rapid cooling. Intrusive igneous rock is formed below the surface from slow cooling of magma.
Do extrusive rocks cool quickly?
Extrusive rocks do cool quickly because either the crystals in the rock are very small or there are no crystals at all.
Why are there are almost no extrusive ultra basic rocks in earths crust?
There are almost no extrusive rocks on the earths surface because they are all under the earths surface. They are mainly lower than the earths surface.
What are igneous rocks formed at the earths surface called?
Extrusive igneous rocks.
Igneous rocks formed on or near Earth's surface?
extrusive because it forms on or near earths surface
How do intrusiver rocks form?
intrusive rocks are formed within the earths surface from magma. extrusive rocks are formed from lava outside of earths surface
What kind of igneous rocks for on earths surface?
Some do. These are called extrusive igneous rocks. However a large portion of igneous rocks form beneath the surface. These are intrusive igneous rocks.
Molten rocks that cool at the earths surface are known as?
Lava.
The ways Which extrusive and intrusive igneous rocks are formed?
extrusive- when melted rock material coools on earths surface instursive-when the melt cools below earths surface
Why are there almost no extrusive ultra-basic rocks in earths crust?
There are almost no extrusive rocks on the earths surface because they are all under the earths surface. They are mainly lower than the earths surface.
What are extrusive and intrusive igneous rock?
Extrusive rocks are formed outside of earths surface. Intrusive rocks are formed inside earths surface.
Igneous rocks that form when magma cools on Earths's surface are called what igneous rocks?
Extrusive igneous rocks.
Is it true that igneous rocks form only beneath earths surface?
It is not true. Extrusive rock forms on the surface from solidifying lava.
What are extrusive rocks and intrusive rocks?
Extrusive rocks are formed outside of earths surface. Intrusive rocks are formed inside earths surface.
