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What landforms are created when magma solidifies under the surface?
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What happens when magma rises to the surface?
It cools and solidifies into a sedimentary rock.
Magma that solidifies before reaching the earth's surface is called?
When magma solidifies before reaching Earth's surface it is called intrusive igneous rock, plutonic rock, a pluton. Igneous rock is formed from crystallization of molten magma.
What is a igneous rock that forms when magma solidifies beneath the earths surface?
Obsidian
What are the sub categories of igneous rocks?
The two types are extrusive igneous rock, which solidifies from magma on the surface, and intrusive igneous rock, which solidifies below the surface. Basalt is extrusive, granite is intrusive.
How are landforms formed by rising magma?
the magma cools on the surface and eventually u get land
What are structures that form when magma solidifies beneath earth's surface called?
igneous, magmatic
When magma solidifies far belows earth's surface they form what?
When magma reaches the earth's surface, it is called lava. when it solidifies, it forms new crust, or rock.
What solidifies into plutonic rock?
magma
What is the process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises to earth's surface and solidifies at a mid-ocean ridge?
seafloor spreading
What is solid form of magma body?
When magma solidifies, it becomes igneous rock.
Where is the only significant land surface on which new crust is being created by rifting?
Divergent plate boundaries. They pull away from each other, and magma rises from the gap, cools, and solidifies, which creates "new" crust.
Is gabbro made from lava or magma?
Intrusive igneous rocks are made from magma. Magma that is extruded onto the Earth's surface is known as lava and forms extrusive igneous rocks.
