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An extrusive igneous rock.
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What forms igenous rock?
The cooling, solidification, crystallization and hardening of molten magma or lava.
Why is basalt classified as an igneous rock?
Basalt is considered igneous because it forms when mafic lava cools at Earth's surface.
What type of rocks form from lava after a volcanic eruption?
Igneous rocks are formed from the cooling and solidifying of magma. The resulting rock can be instrusive (magma cooling within the crust) and extrusive (lava cooling on the surface). The most common kind of rocks are Granite (intrusive) and Basalt (extrusive).
What trait is an intrusive igneous rock?
If a rock is intrusive, that means that it formed from magma inside the Earth. An example is granite. The opposite is extrusive, which forms from cooling lava from volcanoes. An extrusive rock is obsidian.
How do igneous rocks form?
Igneous rock forms from the cooling of molten material called magma or lava.
A rock that forms cooling lava is classified as an?
An extrusive igneous rock.
A rock that forms from cooling lava that is classified as what?
The rocks that are formed from cooling of lava are known as Igneous rocks.
How is a rock from cooling lava classified?
a rock from cooling lava is called a extrusive igneous rock
What rock forms from cooling magma or lava from?
It is known as igneous rock.
What way is not a way of sedimentary rock forms?
Lava cooling
From what material does an extrusive rock form?
Extrusive rock forms from cooling lava.
What material does extrusive rock form?
Extrusive rock forms from cooling lava.
What is formed by cooled magma cooling?
it is lava and when lava cools it forms igneous rock
What forms igneous rock?
solidification of molten lava
What does a fine-grass igneous rock forms?
A fine grained igneous rock forms from Lava that escapes from the earth crust to the surface and cools and solidifies rapidly.
From what material does extrusive rocks form?
Extrusive rock forms from cooling lava.
When lava flows and cools on Earth's surface it forms what kind of rock?
Igneous rock is formed through the cooling and solidificatio of magma or lava.
