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What is a slab of volcanic rock formed when magma squeezes between layers of rock?
A sill (assuming you are talking about horizontal layers of rock)
What are Frothy volcanic rock are called?
Pumice is a frothy, bubbly, light volcanic rock.
What is a light porous volcanic rock called?
Pumice. It floats on water due to its vesicular structure.
Every single igneous rock is also a volcanic rock?
No. Volcanic rock is extrusive igneous rock, which cools at or above earth's surface. However, igneous rocks can form from magama that cools inside the earth as well. This is called intrusive igneous rock, sometimes called plutonic rock.
What rock group does obsidan belong to?
Obsidian falls under the group of Extrusive Volcanic Rock of very fine texture. Obsidian is generally called Volcanic Glass.
Slab that forms when magma forces itself across rock layers?
The slab of volcanic rock that is formed when magma forces itself across rock layers is called a dike. This will eventually build into mountains.
What is a slab of volcanic rock formed when magma squeezes between layers of rock?
A sill (assuming you are talking about horizontal layers of rock)
What are Frothy volcanic rock are called?
Pumice is a frothy, bubbly, light volcanic rock.
What is a volcanic plate?
A tectonic plate is a massive, irregularly shaped slab of solid rock. These plates can make volcanic activity, mountains, and several other things as well.
What is a molten volcanic rock called?
igneous rock
A sheet of volcanic rock that protrudes into the surrounding layers of rock?
It's called a volcanic sill.
What is the slab that forms when magma forces itself across rock layers?
The slab that forms when magma forces itself across rock layers is called a dike.
The minerals form a narrow channel or slab in the rock called?
Pipes
A moving slab of rock is called a?
Tectonic Plate
What is a light porous volcanic rock called?
Pumice. It floats on water due to its vesicular structure.
Is volcanic rock a rock?
Volcanic rock refers to a rock that forms from the molten material released by a volcano or a volcanically active site. Because all the molten material, called lava or magma, from a volcano is simply rock at a liquid state, is still rock, yes, volcanic rock is just a rock.
When ash and molten rock pour out of the earth are called?
it is called a volcanic eruption
