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Q: What extrusive thing does igneous rocks form?
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What are igneous rocks that form over the surface?

Rhyolititcen 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 types of extrusive igneous rocks?

Extrusive igneous rocks are igneous rocks that form above earth's surface. They are usually fine-grained due to the rate in which they cool.


Igneous rocks that form when magma cools on Earths's surface are called what igneous rocks?

Extrusive igneous rocks.


What are igneous rocks that form above the earth called?

Extrusive (volcanic) igneous rocks.


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 is the difference between igneous rocks and extrusive rocks?

Extrusive is a form of igneous rock - it's what you get when the magma is extruded or squeezed out onto the surface in the form of lava.


What Extrusive igneous rocks form when hardens and cools.?

lava


What igneous rocks form on or near earth's surface?

extrusive


What are types of extrusive rock?

Extrusive igneous rocks are igneous rocks that form above earth's surface. They are usually fine-grained due to the rate in which they cool.


What is igneous rocks that form from magma that reaches the surface of the earth?

Extrusive Igneous Rock.


What is the similar in intrusive and extrusive igneous rock?

Igneous rocks which form by the crystallization of magma.