Both are formed from the crystallization of minerals caused by the cooling of magma.
Intrusive igneous rocks cooled below the surface of the planet, however, and generally display larger crystals due to the increased amount of time spent at mineral crystallization temperatures from the insulating effect of surrounding material.
Examples: granite, gabbro, diorite, peridotite.
Extrusive rocks are formed from magma at or above the surface of the planet, and generally display smaller mineral crystals, or no crystals at all, because of the rapid cooling environment in which they form. Chemically, an intrusive and extrusive rock could be identical, the only difference being the size of the mineral crystals they contain.
Examples: obsidian, rhyolite, pumice, scoria, basalt.
Both are formed from the crystallization of minerals caused by the cooling of magma.
Intrusive igneous rocks cooled below the surface of the planet, however, and generally display larger crystals due to the increased amount of time spent at mineral crystallization temperatures from the insulating effect of surrounding material.
Examples: granite, gabbro, diorite, peridotite.
Extrusive rocks are formed from magma at or above the surface of the planet, and generally display smaller mineral crystals, or no crystals at all, because of the rapid cooling environment in which they form. Chemically, an intrusive and extrusive rock could be identical, the only difference being the size of the mineral crystals they contain.
Examples: obsidian, rhyolite, pumice, scoria, basalt.
Both are formed from the crystallization of minerals caused by the cooling of magma.
Intrusive igneous rocks cooled below the surface of the planet, however, and generally display larger crystals due to the increased amount of time spent at mineral crystallization temperatures from the insulating effect of surrounding material.
Extrusive rocks are formed from magma at or above the surface of the planet, and generally display smaller mineral crystals, or no crystals at all, because of the rapid cooling environment in which they form. Chemically, an intrusive and extrusive rock could be identical, the only difference being the size of the mineral crystals they contain.
Both are formed from the crystallization of minerals caused by the cooling of magma.
Intrusive igneous rocks cooled below the surface of the planet, however, and generally display larger crystals due to the increased amount of time spent at mineral crystallization temperatures from the insulating effect of surrounding material.
Examples: granite, gabbro, diorite, peridotite.
Extrusive rocks are formed from magma at or above the surface of the planet, and generally display smaller mineral crystals, or no crystals at all, because of the rapid cooling environment in which they form. Chemically, an intrusive and extrusive rock could be identical, the only difference being the size of the mineral crystals they contain.
Examples: obsidian, rhyolite, pumice, scoria, basalt.
Both are formed from the crystallization of minerals caused by the cooling of magma.
Intrusive igneous rocks cooled below the surface of the planet, however, and generally display larger crystals due to the increased amount of time spent at mineral crystallization temperatures from the insulating effect of surrounding material.
Extrusive rocks are formed from magma at or above the surface of the planet, and generally display smaller mineral crystals, or no crystals at all, because of the rapid cooling environment in which they form. Chemically, an intrusive and extrusive rock could be identical, the only difference being the size of the mineral crystals they contain.
Intrusive rocks cool below the earth's surface and take much longer to crystalize, thus are usually coarse grained. Intrusive rocks often form through magma plumes, which rise through the mantle and cool in the earth's crust. Granite is a good example of an intrusive igneous rock.
Extrusive rocks cool above the earth's surface and crystallize very quickly, as a result are finer grained. Extrusive rocks are released from the earth in the form of volcanic eruptions, which occur both on the continents and on the ocean floor. Extrusive rocks like basalt form the ocean floor, exiting the asthenosphere from divergent plate boundaries.
one is within the earth, one is on the earths surface
Quickly above Earth
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A discordant intrusion is known as a dyke. A larger intrusion may also be a pluton or batholith, which both also cut across rock strata. A sill is an intrusion which is concordant, and goes between the strata. This does not necessarily mean that it is horizontal.
That depends! If the fault line cross cuts the igneous intrusion causing the intrusion to be displaced on either side of the fault and forming a broken mass of rock within the intrusion known as a fault breccia then the fault is younger than the intrusions, as the intrusion must have already existed for the fault to cause it's displacement. If on the other hand the igneous intrusion cross cuts the fault and is un-deformed then it is probable that it is younger than the fault.
The intrusion is younger than the overlying sedimentary rock.
An igneous intrusion is younger than the rock into which it intruded.
If it is above it, the rock layer came after the intrusion. if the intrusion went through the rock layer is older because they layer had to be there in order for the intrusion to go through.
If it has broken through the Earth's crust then it would be a igneous extrusion and a volcano can form. If it hasn't complete broke through the crust it would be a igneous intrusion. Depending if the intrusion was concordant or discordant with the bedding planes it would be either a sill or a dyke.
Batholith is the name for a huge igneous intrusion.
A laccolith is an igneous formation between two sedimentary layers
Principally and respectively they are the main continental and oceanic crust rocks of the Earth. They will also appear on the surface as igneous rocks by intrusion or extrusion (volcanism).
The answer to this ? is extrusion
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"layering" As in "layered" igneous intrusion.
I am learning about this in my Science class, and when a geologist looks at an extrusion, they know it's an extrusion because it is Igneous rock, and an extrusion helps tell the reletive ages of the layers around it.
A laccolith is an igneous intrusion that has been forced between two sedimentary rock strata creating a lens.
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