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What is a common igneous rock with coarse grains that forms when magma cools slowly underground it is extremely hard and durable good for building?
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How would you describe the texture of an igneous rock that formed extremely slowly underground?
pegmatitic
What characteristics make igneous rocks useful?
Many igneous rocks are hard, dense, and durable. This makes them great for tools and building materials.
How would you best describe the texture of an igneous rock that formed extremely slowly underground?
Coarse
What is the type of Igneous rock that forms underground?
Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary rocks
Where does most igneous activity take place?
Underground
How would you describe the texture of an igneous rock that formed extremely slowly underground?
pegmatitic
What characteristics make igneous rocks useful?
Many igneous rocks are hard, dense, and durable. This makes them great for tools and building materials.
How would you best describe the texture of an igneous rock that formed extremely slowly underground?
Coarse
Why might incas have chosen igneous rock to build their fortress near Ollantaytambo in Peru?
Many igneous rocks are hard, dense, and durable. People throughout history have used igneous rock for tools and building materials.
Why might the Incas have chosen igneous rock to build their fortress near Ollantaytambo in Peru?
Many igneous rocks are hard, dense, and durable. People throughout history have used igneous rock for tools and building materials.
What are the facts about granite?
It is extremely durable, stain resistant and easy to care for. Granite is an intrusive igneous rock (formed from the slow cooling of magma underground), the major component of the continental crust, coarse grained, and composed of quartz along with a variety of feldspar minerals and micas.
What igneous rock cools deep underground?
Plutonic igneous rocks.
How igneous rocks formed underground?
Igneous rocks are formed underground from a very hot substance called magma. As magma cools and hardens under extreme pressure, it forms igneous rocks.
What is the most durable igneous rock?
granite.granite
What is the type of Igneous rock that forms underground?
Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary rocks
Why are Igneous Rocks used in tools?
Obsidian when knapped would have the sharpest cutting tool edge of any igneous rock.
What is the igneous rocks made underground?
intrusive rock
