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Some types of pumice have enough air inside to float.
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What is a light porous volcanic rock called?
Pumice. It floats on water due to its vesicular structure.
What type of rock is porous volcanic rock?
Common, hihgly porous types of volcanic rock are pumice and scoria.
What is an igneous rock that is gray and floats in water?
Pumice is a grey volcanic rock so full of gas bubbles that it is able to float on water.
What type of volcanic rock is closest to the crater?
igneous
What type of rock is siliceous volcanic glass?
Siliceous volcanic glass is also known as obsidian.
What rock floats on water?
Floating rocks: pumice. Non-floating rocks: all but pumice. Pumice can float on water because its density is so low, due to trapped bubbles of air which formed during its solidification from lava.
Where do you find a rock that floats?
The on rock that floats is a pumice. It is a kind of volcanic glass. The reason it floats is because it has big pours all over it. I'm only in 8th grade and I still know the answer.
What is a light porous volcanic rock called?
Pumice. It floats on water due to its vesicular structure.
Pumice is a volcanic rock that floats Its density is?
With out knowing further knowledge about the rock it is unable to determine the exact density. However, since the rock floats, presumably in water, the density must be less then 1.00g/L.
What type of rock do you have?
volcanic rock from cape verde
What type of rock is porous volcanic rock?
Common, hihgly porous types of volcanic rock are pumice and scoria.
How can there be a rock that floats and what are three ways that this rock can be formed?
Very porous rocks such as pumice can be very light and have the potential to float on water. Pumice is a volcanic rock.
What is an igneous rock that is gray and floats in water?
Pumice is a grey volcanic rock so full of gas bubbles that it is able to float on water.
What rock is more likely to be found by a volcano?
volcanic rock , or even a type of rock in a classified section , sedimentary , metaphoric , or even igneous. the answer is volcanic rock a type of metaphoric rock. :)
What type of igneous rock?
Volcanic.
What type of rock is a volcano from?
Volcanic rock is extrusive igneous rock.
What type of rock is the Easter Island head of?
volcanic rock
