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What would happen to an igneous rock exposed at the earth s surface?
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What is igneous rocks that form below Eart's surface are called?
Below the Earth's surface an Igneous rock is intrusive. Above the Earth's surface it is called extrusive.Hope this helps.
What igneous rock are formed when lava cools at earth's surface?
Extrusive igneous rocks are formed
What are the ways igneous rock can form?
intrusive igneous rock: magma cools and hardens in the earth and later forms an intrusive igneous rock. extrusive igneous rock: magma flows onto earth's surface and becomes lava. Then, lava cools and hardens above earth's surface and later forms an extrusive igneous rock.
What is a movement within the earth that causes buried rock to be exposed at the earth's surface called?
The movement within the Earth that causes buried rock to be exposed at the Earth's surface is called uplift. It refers to the vertical elevation of the Earth's surface.
What places can igneous rocks be found?
Between 50 and 200 km below Earth's surface
What is the most common type of rock on earth's surface?
Sedimentary Rocks. 75% of rocks exposed to the surface are sedimentary.
What are igneous rocks that form on earth surface?
igneous rocks that form on earth's surface
What is bathoilth?
a batholith is a large mass of igneous rock in Earth's crust that, if exposed at the surface, covers an area of at least 100km (212)
Which type of rock can form below Earth's surface or below Earth's surface?
Igneous rock can form deep below the surface as intrusive igneous rock, or on or near the surface as extrusive igneous rock. X Answer is: Igneous
Which type of rock can form deep below Earth's surface or above Earth's surface?
Igneous rock can form deep below the surface as intrusive igneous rock, or on or near the surface as extrusive igneous rock. X Answer is: Igneous
What is igneous rock formed from magma below the earth's surface called?
Igneous rocks that form below the Earth's surface are called intrusive igneous rocks (or plutonic).
What is igneous rocks that form below Eart's surface are called?
Below the Earth's surface an Igneous rock is intrusive. Above the Earth's surface it is called extrusive.Hope this helps.
Which igneous rocks form below earth's surface?
Intrusive igneous rocks form from cooled magma below Earth's surface.
Does magma always reach the Earth's surface?
no sometimes it cools under earth's surface. that is called intrusive igneous rocks. when it reaches earth's surface and cools its called extrusive igneous rocks.
What type of rock can form deep Earth's surface or above Earth's surface?
igneous
When igneous rocks are exposed on Earth's surface and undergo weathering they eventually become which rock?
The sediments from the weathering could become part of a sedimentary rock formation.
Igneous rocks formed from lava on Earth's surface?
Extrusive igneous rocks.
