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What is the best evidence for determining the cooling rate of an igneous rock during its solidification is provided by?
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the crystal size of its minerals
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What is the best evidence for determining the cooling rate of an igneous rock during its solidification is provided by what?
the crystal size of its minerals
What is an igenous rock?
Igneous rock is rock formed from the solidification of molten magma after cooling.
What are the parts of the rock cycle?
weathering,erosion,deposition,compaction and cementation,metamorphism,melting,cooling and solidification.
What are two types igneous rocks?
Granite and basalt are the most common types of igneous rock. Igneous rock types, or classifications, also include those that are intrusive and extrusive. Intrusive igneous rock is formed from the solidification of slow cooling magma below the surface. Extrusive igneous rock is formed for the solidification of rapidly cooling lava at or near the surface.
How were the first rocks formed?
The first rocks formed from solidifying magma when the ancient Earth cooled.
What is the best evidence for determining the cooling rate of an igneous rock during its solidification is provided by what?
the crystal size of its minerals
How are intrusive and extrusive ignious rock different?
Intrusive rick forms when the cooling and solidification of magma and extrusive is when the cooling and solidification of lava.
What causes igneous rock to form?
Igneous rock is formed from the cooling and solidification of magma or lava.
What forms igneous rock?
solidification of molten lava
What is liquid cooling to solid called?
A liquid cooling into a solid is called freezing or in more scientific terms solidification
Which type of rock is produced by the cooling and solidification of molten rock?
Igneous rock.
Where do intrusive igneous rock form?
They form underground from the cooling and solidification of magma.
What is an igenous rock?
Igneous rock is rock formed from the solidification of molten magma after cooling.
How were the rockes formed?
The first rock on Earth was formed from the cooling and solidification of magma on the surface.
Which process formed the granite that is mined in many areas of the US?
The cooling and solidification of magma.
What cause rocks to form?
Igneous rock is formed from the cooling and solidification of magma or lava.
What is the definition of cooling and solidification of rocks?
It is the process in which a rock cools off and being formed
