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What is the difference between red bluff granite and thunderbird rhyolite?
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Is granite the plutonic equivalant of rhyolite?
Yes. Granite and Rhyolite have the same composition.
Granite and ryholite have similar composition but granite is course-grained whereas rhyolite is fine grained what is the difference?
Granite forms underground where magma cools slowly, allowing relatively large crystals to form. Rhyolite forms above ground as lava cools quickly, meaning that any crystals will be small.
What is one similarity between Granite and Rhyolite?
Both granite and rhyolite are felsic igneous rocks formed from very viscous silica rich magma. They have essentially the same composition. The difference between them is that granite cools slowly underground, forming large crystals while rhyolite cools rapidly above ground after a volcanic eruption forming small crystals or no crystals.
Do diorite and rhyolite have the same chemical composition?
No. Diorite has the same composition as andesite while Rhyolite has the same composition as granite.
What is the classification of rhyolite?
Felsic extrusive igneous rock. It is the volcanic equivalent of granite.
Explain the relationship beween the red bluff granite and the thunderbird rhyolite?
If you take the words 'Red Bluff' and 'thunderbird' out of the question, the answer would be that granite and rhyolite may be composed of the same material, but one (granite) is a result of solidification underground, and the other (rhyolite) solidified above ground.
What is the relationship between the Red Bluff granite and the Thunderbird Rhyolite?
They are chemically the exact same. Red Bluff Granite Suite is that part of the magma chamber that cooled inside of the Earth; whereas, the Thunderbird Formation is the extrusive/volcanic equivalent.
What is the difference between rhyolite and granite?
The difference is the size of grains. Rhyolite is the felsic igneous rock with fine-grained size. Whereas, granite is the equivalent in composition but with coarse-grained size.
Are granite and rhyolite similar in a way?
Yes. Rhyolite and granite have the same composition. Rhyolite is the volcanic equivalent of granite.
Is granite the plutonic equivalant of rhyolite?
Yes. Granite and Rhyolite have the same composition.
What is the light-colored rock that makes up most of the continental crust?
granite or rhyolite
What is the intrusive counterpart of rhyolite?
The intrusive counterpart of rhyolite is granite.
Is rhyolite volcanic?
Yes. Rhyolite is the volcanic equivalent of granite.
The volcanic equivalent of granite is?
Rhyolite
What are four felsic igneous rocks?
vesicular rhyolite, rhyolite, granite, and pegmatite!
Granite and ryholite have similar composition but granite is course-grained whereas rhyolite is fine grained what is the difference?
Granite forms underground where magma cools slowly, allowing relatively large crystals to form. Rhyolite forms above ground as lava cools quickly, meaning that any crystals will be small.
Which rock takes a longer time to form rhyolite or granite?
Rhyolite cools faster from magma (lava) than does granite, which forms from slow cooling of magma deep underground. Granite.
