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The crust is composed of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.
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What are the most common type of rock found at the earths surface and in the earths crust?
Sedimentary rocks is the most common rock type. 75% of all rocks on earth are Sedimentary.
What type of rock is formed by magma that cools deep below earths crust?
Igneous rocks are formed from cooled magma of lava, sedimentary rocks by sediment under pressure, and mettamorphic from any rock that undergoes much heat and/or pressure.
What type of crust is the earths tectonic plates made up of?
Tectonic plates may be made of continental crust, oceanic crust, or both.
What type of rocks form when magma cools below earths surface?
Intrusive igneous rocks.
What type of rock can only form below earths surface?
MetamorphicPlutonic rocks, (Intrusive igneous rocks).
What are the most common type of rock found at the earths surface and in the earths crust?
Sedimentary rocks is the most common rock type. 75% of all rocks on earth are Sedimentary.
What do ingeous rocks form from?
a type of rock that forms when magma cools and hardens very slowly deep in earths crust...
Which rock group makes up least of earths crust?
Just to say: This question refers to rock groups. Not what type of rock.Igneous rocks make up most of the earth's crust.
In earths crust What type of rock is found under the oceans?
Oceanic crust, new oceanic crust is produced by seafloor spreading.
What type of stress causes the earths crust to become thinner?
Tension
What type of rock is formed by magma that cools deep below earths crust?
Igneous rocks are formed from cooled magma of lava, sedimentary rocks by sediment under pressure, and mettamorphic from any rock that undergoes much heat and/or pressure.
What type of crust is the earths tectonic plates made up of?
Tectonic plates may be made of continental crust, oceanic crust, or both.
What type of rocks make up most of Earths surface?
Sedimentary rock is the most common Earth surface rock.
What type of science studies earths rocks?
geology is correct
Is a metamorphic rock made in earths crust?
Yes. Metamorphic rocks are any other type of rock (igneous or sedimentary) that has been deformed and altered by exposure to heat, as in from an igneous intrusion or proximity to the mantle.
What type of energy comes from hot rocks in the earth's crust?
Geothermal
What type of scientist studies rocks minerals and earths landforms?
geologist
