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What is the result of cooling and hardening of magma deep underground?
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Intrusive igneous rock.
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What features form as a result of magma hardening beneath earth?
The features that form as a result of magma of magma hardening beneath the earth's surface are volcanic necks,sills and batholiths.
What structures form from the cooling and hardening of magma beneath earth's surface?
When magma cools slowly deep underground it produces a rock with larger crystals than when the magma (or lava) cools quickly near (or on) the surface.Rocks with the largest crystal structure are described as 'pegmatitic'.Rocks with crystals visible to the naked eye are described as 'phaneritic'.Rocks with no apparent crystal structure are called 'aphanitic'
Which rock takes a longer time to form rhyolite or granite?
Rhyolite cools faster from magma (lava) than does granite, which forms from slow cooling of magma deep underground. Granite.
What causes large crystals in intrusive igneous rocks?
Intrusive igneous rock is formed underground by the slow cooling of magma. With the insulating and heat retention effects of an underground environment, ions are free to move about the fluid magma and join onto growing mineral crystals. In a quick cooling environment, crystallization occurs rapidly, with little time for crystal growth.
Rocks that form as a result of cooling magma?
Rocks formed from magma are igneous rocks. Extrusive igneous rocks form from lava at or near the surface. Intrusive rocks form from magma below the surface.
Is a volcano the result of the cooling and hardening deep underground?
Generally, the volcano is not the result of cooling and hardening deep underground. It is the molten magma in the core of the earth that, when it rises and breaks through the earth's crust, results in volcanic action.
The cooling and hardening of magma deep underground results in what?
The cooling and hardening of magma deep underground results in igneous rock. Rare gems and diamonds can be found in igneous rock.
How does magma create rock?
Magma is molten rock. It becomes rock by cooling and hardening.
What features form as a result of magma hardening beneath earth?
The features that form as a result of magma of magma hardening beneath the earth's surface are volcanic necks,sills and batholiths.
What features form as a result of magma hardening beneath earth surface?
The features that form as a result of magma of magma hardening beneath the earth's surface are volcanic necks,sills and batholiths.
What structures are formed from the cooling and hardening of magma beneaths earths surface?
Plutons
What is the definition of cooling and hardening?
Harding of rock formations through magma flow.
What is the cleavage of diorite?
Diorite is formed by the cooling of intermediate magmas underground.
What features form as a result of hardening beneath earth surface?
The features that form as a result of magma of magma hardening beneath the earth's surface are volcanic necks,sills and batholiths.
What are rocks that form when magma cools underground?
A pluton is a body of rock formed from the cooling of magma under the surface.
What forms igenous rock?
The cooling, solidification, crystallization and hardening of molten magma or lava.
Which rock type forms from cooling on earth's surface?
Igneous rocks are formed by the cooling and hardening of molten material called magma.
