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What is the difference between granitic igneous rock an basaltic igneous rock?
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What igneous rocks have a mineral composition between that of granitic and basaltic rocks?
Andesitic igneous rock.
What is the difference between granitic igneous rocks and basaltic igneous rocks?
Basalt is an igneous rock with very fine grains. It is dark colored. Granite is a variety of colors: gray, pink, and white. It has coarse grains.
Why are granitic igneous rocks light in color?
granitic igneous rocks are light colored because of a lower density than basaltic rocks
Why are granitic igneous rocks lighter in color than basaltic rocks?
Because granitic rocks are poor in iron and magnesium, which gives basaltic rocks it dark color.
What is the difference between basaltic and frantic igneous rock?
There sedimentary igneous and metemorphic
Light colored igneous rocks are less what than dark igneous rocks?
basaltic rocks are darker because they are more dence granitic rocks are less dence so they are lighter
What makes up the continents and the ocean floor?
The continental and oceanic plates are primarily igneous rock. The continental crust is granitic and the oceanic crust is basaltic.
What is same between basaltic and andesitic rock?
Both are classified as igneous rock.
What are rocks that form Earth's crust?
The rocks of the crust are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic in origin. The base rock of the oceanic crust are mainly basaltic and the base rock of the continental crust is mainly granitic.
What are the magmas the three families of igneous rock form from?
There are many different types of ignoues rock, but as a general description, mafic, felsic and intermediate rocks are formd from basaltic, granitic, and andesitic magmas respectively.
What is igneous that have mineral composistions between those grantic and basaltic rocks?
andesitic rock
Is Pumis granitic?
no. pumice is a volcanic rock (igneous)
