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It's called extrusive igneous rock--rapidly solidified lava.
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Igneous rock that forms when magma hardens beneath earths surface is called?
Intrusive igneous rock
What is the kind of igneous rock that forms below earths surface called?
Intrusive igneous rock (plutonic rock).
When rock that forms when magma hardens beneath earths surface is called an?
Intrusive igneous rock
When melted rock cools or hardens on it under earths surface it forms rock?
Igneous rock. Extrusive igneous rock forms at or near the surface, intrusive igneous rock forms below the surface.
What type of igneous rock forms beneath Earths surface?
Igneous rock that forms within the Earth is intrusive.
When Igneous rock that forms when magma hardens beneath earths surface?
Intrusive igneous rock
What kind of igneous rock forms when lava cools at earths surface?
Such rock is extrusive igneous rock.
What is a igneous rock that forms when magma solidifies beneath the earths surface?
Obsidian
What is igneous rock that forms below earths surface extrusive or intrusive?
Intrusive
What igneous rock that formed from lava that erupted into earths surface are called?
When igneous rock forms on the Earth's surface, including on the ocean floor, it's called extrusive. It's called intrusive rock when it forms beneath Earth's surface, such as in mines.
What type of igneous rock hardens under the surface?
The type of igneous rock that hardens under the earths surface is called the Intrusive Igneous Rock. Intrusive Igneous Rocks are of two main types, Hypabasal and Plutonic. The plutonic forms at deeper depths.
What type of igneous rock forms form lava or magma that erupts onto the earths surface?
extrusive igneous rock
