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Igneous rocks are formed by the cooling and hardening of molten material called magma.

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What forms beneath earths surface?

The rock that forms on earth's surface is extrusive rock or otherwise known as a metamorphic rock.


When melted rock cools or hardens on it under earths surface it forms rock?

Igneous rock. Extrusive igneous rock forms at or near the surface, intrusive igneous rock forms below the surface.


What type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface?

igneous rock


Which igneous rock forms under the surface?

Intrusive igneous rock forms from the cooling of magma below the surface. Granite, for example.


What is igneous rock that forms below earths surface extrusive or intrusive?

Igneous rock that forms below the Earth's surface is intrusive.


What term describes an igneous rock that forms quickly on earths surface from cooling lava?

This type of igneous rock is called "extrusive igneous rock." It forms when lava cools and solidifies quickly on the Earth's surface, resulting in small mineral grains that are characteristic of rocks like basalt or rhyolite.


What kind of igneous rock forms when lava cools at earths surface?

Such rock is extrusive igneous rock.


What is melted rock that reaches Earths surface and forms extrusive and igneous rock when it cools?

a Obsidion rock


When Igneous rock that forms when magma hardens beneath earths surface?

Intrusive igneous rock


What is a igneous rock that forms when magma solidifies beneath the earths surface?

Obsidian


When the pressure of rock layers presses up to the earths surface it forms?

volcano


What is the kind of igneous rock that forms below earths surface called?

Intrusive igneous rock (plutonic rock).