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Other than that they are both types of rock, very little. They have very different methods of formation and mineral composition. Basalt is produced from mafic lava flows, and shale is a product of sedimentary rock processes.
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Is pumice white or is pumice gray?
Pumice can be white, gray, or even pink.
Is pumice organic?
No. Pumice is inorganic.
What metamorphic rock can float?
Pumice.
Does pumice have large or small crystals?
Pumice does not have crystals. It is made of glass.
How can you make pumice at home?
Pumice is a natural material from a volcano, so you can't make it at home. You can buy pumice as a brick in a hardware store.
What are three types of igneous rock?
Three types of igneous rocks are pumice, basalt, and granite.
Describe one use for the igneous rocks granite basalt and pumice?
granite: sismecology basalt: hyperbole pumice: your big fat butt
Name 4 kinds of igneous rocks?
Examples of igneous rocks are pumice, obsidian, basalt, and rhyolite.
What is example of igneous rock?
Basalt and pumice.
Whatrock has large minerals grains granite basalt obisdian pumice?
basalt
List of igneous rocks?
basalt and pumice
Name a volcanic rock?
Obsidian, basalt, andesite, pumice.
Are the Hawaiian island rocks light pumice?
No. They are black basalt.
Why is basalt heavier than pumice?
pumice is volcanic ash and it is vesicular. meaning that it has lots of air bubbles in it making it even lighter. basalt is hardened lava. it was exposed and cooled rapidly.
Which is fomed by fast cooling lava--pumice granite or basalt?
Pumice is the result of extremely fast cooling lava.
Examples of igneous rock?
Granite basalt pumice aplite scoria
What is one way basalt and pumice are used today?
They can be used for concrete.
