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Are generically called lavas but may be specifically basalts, ignimbrites, andesites phonolites etc.

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What igneous rock is melted rock that reaches earths surface and forms extrusive igneous rock when it cools?

a Obsidion rock


What refers to rocks that are produced when melted rock or magma from inside Earths cools or hardens on or below Earths surface?

i think the answer your looking for is igneous rock.....that is the type of rock you get after megma cools.....


What is melted rock that reaches Earths surface and forms extrusive and igneous rock when it cools?

a Obsidion rock


When melted rock cools or hardens on it under earths surface it forms rock?

Igneous rock. Extrusive igneous rock forms at or near the surface, intrusive igneous rock forms below the surface.


The ways Which extrusive and intrusive igneous rocks are formed?

extrusive- when melted rock material coools on earths surface instursive-when the melt cools below earths surface


When melted rock cools or hardens on or under earth's surface it forms what rock?

Igneous rock. Extrusive igneous rock forms at or near the surface, intrusive igneous rock forms below the surface.


When melted rock cools or hardens on or under earths surface it forms what kind of rock?

It forms an igneous rock. If it is within the Earth, then it is an intrusive igneous rock (e.g. granite) and if it is erupted onto Earth's surface then it is an extrusive igneous rock (e.g. basalt).


What kind of igneous rock forms when lava cools at earths surface?

Such rock is extrusive igneous rock.


What is it called when magma slowly cools far beneath the earths surface?

An igneous intrusion.


Igneous rock form on eath surface?

Igneous rocks do form on the earths surface. A volcano erupts and the lava that comes out cools and hardens forming igneous rocks.


What Is melted rock that reaches Earth's surface and forms extrusive igneous rocks when it cools?

lava


When melted rock cools and hardens an intrusive igneous rock is formed?

when it cools undera lot of pressure underground it is an intrusive igneous. If it cools on the surface of the earth then it is an extrusive igneous.