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yes, under high temperatures actually the rock gets molten and turns into a liquid called lava. when this erupts out of the volcano it cools as temperature on surface is very low compared to the inner earth parts. This solidified rock is what we today call IGNEOUS rocks.

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What does the bowen's series depict?

Bowen's reaction series shows that one homogeneous body of magma can form more than kind of igneous rock. At its lowest temperature, it can form felsic igneous rock like Potassium Feldspar, muscovite, quartz or emerald. At its highest temperature, it can form mafic igneous rocks like olivine.


How Did Rock get Its Name?

Rocks come from a cycle we call the rock cycle, it starts off as magma, as this cools, igneous rocks are made. Weathering and erosion causes igneous rocks to turn into sediments which forms into sedimentary through compaction. Heat and pressure causes sedimentary rocks to turn into metamorphic rocks which then gets melted back into magma. This goes in a circle which never ends, so rocks are being formed all the time.


How does volcanic dyke form?

The rock cycle starts off by sediments being carried away, usually by water, and then being layered and layered to create sedimentary rock. After a large amount of heat and pressure, it creates metamorphic rock those are mostly smooth. after it is pushed down further into the earth, it melts into magma. After lava explodes out of a volcano and hardens, it creates igneous rock which are rocks that are produced by a volcano.


What are peak objects?

It is the moss rock and the other type of rocks


Did the rock die?

Rocks don't really die, but can be melted. I guess you could say the rock died. But a more sufficient answer is that rocks reform, and may be melted over and over. The cycle of the rock doesn't really end, so basically rocks don't die.

Related Questions

Do rocks formed when molten harden?

When magma - molten rock - solidifies, it does form an igneous rock.


What type of rock is made from hot magma?

Rocks that form when hot magma solidifies are igneous rocks.


What are igneous rocks that form on lava?

Extrusive igneous rock, like basalt and rhyolite.


What kind of rock forms from magma?

Igneous rocks form from magma as it cools and solidifies. Examples include granite, basalt, and obsidian.


What type of igneous rock that solidifies outside the crust?

extrusive igneous rocks, inside the earth is intrusive igneous rocks


When molten rock cools and solidifies what rock is formed?

Magma that cools underground forms igneous rocks.* It is called "lava" when it reaches the surface, and may solidify into several forms of igneous rock, depending on the compounds found in the magma and how it cools.


What is the process that forms igeouse rocks?

Igneous rocks are formed through the cooling and solidification of magma or lava. Magma, molten rock beneath the Earth's surface, cools and solidifies to form intrusive igneous rocks like granite. Lava, molten rock on the Earth's surface, cools and solidifies to form extrusive igneous rocks like basalt.


What type of rock is formed when molten rocks cools and solidifies?

Igneous rock


What type of rock forms when lava solidifies?

Igneous rocks form when lava solidifies. These rocks are formed from the cooling and solidification of molten materials that originate from deep within the Earth's mantle or crust. Examples include basalt, andesite, and rhyolite.


How does metamophic rocks become igneous rocks?

When metamorphic rock melts from pressure and heat, then the product of that melt solidifies, it is considered an igneous rock.


What igneous rocks is produced by lava that solidifies at the earth's surface?

Extrusive (Volcanic) igneous rock.


When magma solidifies far belows earth's surface they form what?

When magma reaches the earth's surface, it is called lava. when it solidifies, it forms new crust, or rock.