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Yes, an igneous rock forms when lava is cooled. It is called an extrusive igneous rock (because lava is extruded onto the surface of the earth). A magma pool that did not erupt as lava can cool to become an intrusive rock.
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When igneous rock forms what does magma and lava do?
When lava hardens it makes igneous rock
What type of rock forms when lava solidifies?
Extrusive igneous rock forms from solidifying lava.
How do igneous rock forms from lava?
The lava cools.
What rock does lava form?
The igneous rock forms from lava because when a volcano erupts the lava that flows from a volcano. Igneous rocks have a hot liquid in the beginning. The lava that flows forms into an igneous rock fast. When the lava reaches the surface, it cools rapidly and turns into igneous rock.
What types of rock does lava formed?
When lava cools it forms extrusive igneous rock.
What kind of igneous rock forms when lava cools at earths surface?
Such rock is extrusive igneous rock.
What rock forms from cooling magma or lava from?
It is known as igneous rock.
A rock that forms cooling lava is classified as an?
An extrusive igneous rock.
A rock that forms from cooling lava is classified as an?
An extrusive igneous rock.
What type of rock that forms due to cooling?
Lava will cool to form extrusive igneous rock. The exact type would depend on the composition of the lava.
What type of Igneous rock forms when lava cools rapidly on the earth's surface?
Extrusive igneous rock.
Which igneous rock forms when basaltic lava hardens?
Basalt
