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extrusive- when melted rock material coools on earths surface

instursive-when the melt cools below earths surface

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What is the different between extrusive and intrusive rocks?

Intrusive: An intrusive igneous rock is formed from magma undergroundExtrusive: An extrusive igneous rock is formed from lava outside of the volcano.


What are the 2 kinda of igneous rock?

Extrusive and Intrusive. Extrusive rocks are formed from hardened lava at the surface and Intrusive rocks are formed from magma within the Earth.


What is the difference between an intrusive and an extrusive igneous rocks?

"intrusive" means forced into something, "extrusive" means forced out onto the surface. The igneous magma reaching the surface is therefore extrusive , producing extrusive igneous rocks, and all the rest of the magma is intrusive, producing intrusive igneous rocks.


What do intrusive rock have in common with extrusive rocks?

Sedimentary rocks are not classified by the terms intrusive or extrusive. These are terms used specifically for igneous rock classification, referring to rock that has formed from melt either below or on the surface.


Where is each type of igneous rock formed?

The Extrusive igneous rock is formed on the earths surface while the Intrusive igneous rock is formed within or inside the earths crust.


What are the main two types of igneous rocks?

Igneous rocks are classified as either extrusive or intrusive. Extrusive rocks form from lava at or above the ground, and intrusive rocks form from magma below the ground. Granite is intrusive, pumice is extrusive.


What are two types igneous rocks?

Granite and basalt are the most common types of igneous rock. Igneous rock types, or classifications, also include those that are intrusive and extrusive. Intrusive igneous rock is formed from the solidification of slow cooling magma below the surface. Extrusive igneous rock is formed for the solidification of rapidly cooling lava at or near the surface.


Is schist an intrusive or extrusive rock?

Neither, Igneous rock is either intrusive or extrusive. Thats what intrusive and extrusive is... A igneous rock.


Igneous rocks are described as intrusive or extrusive based on?

Igneous rocks are described as intrusive or extrusive based on formation. Intrusive rocks forms underneath the earth surface, while extrusive rocks forms on the surface of earth.


Is sandstone extrusive?

sedimentary rock are extrusive when the were formed outside land than in the dirt extrusive rocks take less time to form than intusive (formed under ground) becase wind and help it form faster. i hope this is very helpful =)


Where are the two types of igneous rocks made?

Intrusive igneous rocks are formed beneath the Earth's surface through the slow cooling of magma, leading to larger crystal sizes. Extrusive igneous rocks are formed at the Earth's surface through the rapid cooling of lava, resulting in smaller crystal sizes.


What are igneous rocks that form over the surface?

Rhyolititcen rocks.