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Layered Igneous intrusions

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What is the texture of igneous rock?

Phaneritic is the texture of igneous rocks. These types of rocks crystallized slowly.


Rocks created when melted rocks from inside earth cools?

igneous intrusive


What term describes igneous rocks that crystallize inside the Earth?

Intrusive igneous rocks.


What type of igneous rock that solidifies outside the crust?

extrusive igneous rocks, inside the earth is intrusive igneous rocks


Rocks formed from melted material inside the earth?

Intrusive igneous rocks.


What kind of rock are formed when heat inside the earth the mineral in rocks?

igneous rocks


Are all igneous rocks formed inside the earth?

No, igneous rocks can be formed both inside the Earth (intrusive or plutonic) and on the Earth's surface (extrusive or volcanic). Intrusive rocks form underground when magma cools slowly, while extrusive rocks form on the surface when lava cools rapidly.


What term refers to rocks that are produced when melted rockor magma from inside Earth cools or hardens on or below Earth's surface?

Igneous rocks are produced when melted rock or magma from inside the Earth cools and hardens on or below the Earth's surface. These rocks can be categorized as intrusive or extrusive, depending on where the cooling and hardening process occurs.


The molten material deep inside earth from which igneous rocks is called what?

magma


What are igneous rocks that form on lava?

Extrusive igneous rock, like basalt and rhyolite.


What is extusive igneous rock?

They are called extrusive rocks. Extrusive igneous rocks are formed on the earth's surface by the cooling of magma or lava. Intrusive igneous rocks are also made of the cooling of magma or lava, but it cools inside the earth. I hope this is the information you were looking for.


Difference between an intrusive and extrusive igneous rock?

Intrusive igneous rocks by definition, are formed and set underground. As well as the well-crystallized Granites and Basalts, they also include rapidly-chilled rocks such as dykes and sills.Extrusive igneous rocks have been deposited on the Earth's surface, and include all the usual volcanics.