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Is melted rock that reaches Earth's surface and forms extrusive igneous rock when it cools?
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Yes, once-molten rock that cooled on the surface had been extruded from the earth. That is why it is classified as extrusive igneous rock.
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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.
What are extrusive and intrusive igneous rock?
Extrusive rocks are formed outside of earths surface. Intrusive rocks are formed inside earths surface.
Igneous rocks that form when magma cools on Earths's surface are called what igneous rocks?
Extrusive igneous rocks.
What kind of igneous rock forms when lava cools at earths surface?
Such rock is extrusive igneous rock.
Molten rocks that cool at the earths surface are known as?
Lava.
What igneous rock is melted rock that reaches earths surface and forms extrusive igneous rock when it cools?
a Obsidion rock
What is melted rock that reaches Earths surface and forms extrusive and igneous rock when it cools?
a Obsidion rock
What are igneous rocks formed at the earths surface called?
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.
What are extrusive and intrusive igneous rock?
Extrusive rocks are formed outside of earths surface. Intrusive rocks are formed inside earths surface.
What is the landform left at earths surface?
extrusive igneous rock.
Igneous rocks formed on or near Earth's surface?
extrusive because it forms on or near earths surface
What is Hot magma cooled on earths surface?
Extrusive igneous rock.
Igneous rocks that form when magma cools on Earths's surface are called what igneous rocks?
Extrusive igneous rocks.
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
What is igneous rock that forms below earths surface extrusive or intrusive?
Intrusive
What kind of igneous rock forms when lava cools at earths surface?
Such rock is extrusive igneous rock.
