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What layer of the Earth is made up of the rocks basalt and granite?
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The crust.
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The layer of Earth made up largely of the rocks basalt and granite is the?
The crust.
What does granite and basalt have in common?
Basalt and Granite are igneous rocks which are very hard.
What kind of rocks that are formed by volcanic activity?
Igneous Rocks: Basalt and Granite
Why are there no index fossils in the granite and basalt?
Granite and basalt are both igneous rocks - they are formed from magma extruded into another rock layer or from expulsion from a volcano. The heat of the cooling rock would completely melt any fossils they came into contact with and destroy them, so you don't see fossils in these rocks.
What does it mean to have andesitic composition?
Rocks have a composition between that of granite and basalt
The layer of Earth made up largely of the rocks basalt and granite is the?
The crust.
What does granite and basalt have in common?
Basalt and Granite are igneous rocks which are very hard.
Is granite and basalt found in volcanoes?
Granite and basalt are both igneous rocks; however, basalt is considered a volcanic rock, and granite is considered a plutonic rock.
What types of rocks are basalt and granite?
They are all igneous rocks.
Basalt and granite belong to which type of rocks?
Igneous rocks
What are three types of igneous rock?
Three types of igneous rocks are pumice, basalt, and granite.
What makes up close to 95 percent of the rocks in the earth?
Silicates make up close to 95 percent of the rocks in the Earth's crust
Examples of igneous rock?
Granite basalt pumice aplite scoria
Are basaltic igneous rocks lower in density than granitic rocks?
Granite is very much less dense than basalt. This is why the continental crust (mostly composed of granite) floats on Oceanic crust (made mostly of basalt). Granite is 70 % silicon. Where basalt is mainly pyroxene.
What kind of rocks that are formed by volcanic activity?
Igneous Rocks: Basalt and Granite
What kind of rocks make up the most of the igneous rocks?
Granite and Basalt.
Why are there no index fossils in the granite and basalt?
Granite and basalt are both igneous rocks - they are formed from magma extruded into another rock layer or from expulsion from a volcano. The heat of the cooling rock would completely melt any fossils they came into contact with and destroy them, so you don't see fossils in these rocks.
