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extrusive because it forms on or near earths surface
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What are igneous rocks formed at the earths surface called?
Extrusive igneous rocks.
What igneous rocks formed or on or near earths surface?
Volcanoes.
What are extrusive and intrusive igneous rock?
Extrusive rocks are formed outside of earths surface. Intrusive rocks are formed inside earths surface.
What groups of rocks can igneous rocks be formed from?
igneous rocks are formed by magma reaching earths surface and cooling quickly to form extrusive igneous rock.another igneous rock is called intrusive igneous rock. it is formed when magma cools and hardens below the surface.
Igneous rocks that form when magma cools on Earths's surface are called what igneous rocks?
Extrusive igneous rocks.
How and where are igneous rocks formed?
Igneous rocks are formed on and below the surface of the Earth when lava or magma cools enough to crystallize.
What igneous rocks form above the earths surface?
Extrusive because they are formed outside of the earth's core. Rocks formed below earth's surface are intrusive because they are formed inside the earth's core.
What is in the formation of igneous rocks but not in formation of metamorphic rocks?
igneous rocks form within earths surface
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
Is it true that igneous rocks form only beneath earths surface?
It is not true. Extrusive rock forms on the surface from solidifying lava.
Igneous rocks formed from lava on Earth's surface?
Extrusive igneous rocks.
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.
