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What type of rock is formed by cool lava or magma?
An igneous rock is formed when magma cools and hardens. Some examples of igneous rocks are pumice and obsidian.
What type of rock that forms due to cooling?
Lava will cool to form extrusive igneous rock. The exact type would depend on the composition of the lava.
Do igneous rocks cool quickly underground?
Igneous rocks can cool quickly underground depending on the surrounding temperature and pressure conditions. For example, magma chambers deep underground can cool slowly over thousands to millions of years, while shallow intrusions may cool more rapidly. The cooling rate affects the resulting mineral composition and texture of the igneous rock.
What kind of rock is formed when melted minerals cool and harden?
Igneous rock is formed when melted minerals cool and harden. This process can happen either beneath the Earth's surface (intrusive igneous rock) or on the surface (extrusive igneous rock). Examples of igneous rocks include granite, basalt, and obsidian.
How does an igneous rock cool down rapidly?
One of the most common events that causes the rapid cooling of an igneous rock is its collision with a water-based object. This is included but not limited to bodies of water, icebergs, and snow. The rapid cooling causes air bubbles to be trapped within the rapidly hardening rock, thus resulting in a far less dense geological structure. Certain types of igneous rock, such as pumice, have so much air trapped it that it is less dense than water, enabling it to float.
How does a Sedimentary rock to an igneous rock?
The sedimentary rocks would have to melt and cool again to make an igneous rock.
What type of rock is formed by cool lava or magma?
An igneous rock is formed when magma cools and hardens. Some examples of igneous rocks are pumice and obsidian.
True or false intrusive igneous rock forms small crystals because it cools rapidly?
True. Intrusive igneous rock, also known as plutonic rock, forms larger crystals because it cools slowly underground. Extrusive igneous rocks cool rapidly on the Earth's surface, forming smaller crystals.
Can igneous rock sink?
Old, cool igneous rock sinks.
What is the structure of an igneous rock?
the structure of an igneous rock is metamorphic rock that has been heated rapidly and turned into magma then cooled to create igneous rock its gay
What type of rock that forms due to cooling?
Lava will cool to form extrusive igneous rock. The exact type would depend on the composition of the lava.
What type of Igneous rock forms when lava cools rapidly on the earth's surface?
Extrusive igneous rock.
As cool as what?
It becomes a Igneous rock.
Igneous rock that forms on Earth's surface is called?
It's called extrusive igneous rock--rapidly solidified lava.
Do igneous rocks cool quickly underground?
Igneous rocks can cool quickly underground depending on the surrounding temperature and pressure conditions. For example, magma chambers deep underground can cool slowly over thousands to millions of years, while shallow intrusions may cool more rapidly. The cooling rate affects the resulting mineral composition and texture of the igneous rock.
What kind of rock is formed when melted minerals cool and harden?
Igneous rock is formed when melted minerals cool and harden. This process can happen either beneath the Earth's surface (intrusive igneous rock) or on the surface (extrusive igneous rock). Examples of igneous rocks include granite, basalt, and obsidian.
What rock is black glassy and was formed by rapidly cooling lava?
The answer is pitchstone. it is and igneous rock.
