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Igneous rocks are formed through the crystallization of...

Magma

Igneous rocks that form near or on the surface of the earth

Extrusive

Igneous rocks that form under the surface of earth

Intrusive

The most common intrusive igneous rock is...

Granite

What is Latin for fire?

Ignis

The three types of magma are...

Basaltic, granitic, and andesitic

The word for "how lava flows"

Viscosity

A pocket of cooled magma

Pegmatite

Minerals from cooling magma that combine to form intrusive igneous rock bodies

Pluton

The largest type of pluton

Batholith

Irregularly shaped plutons that are smaller than batholiths

Stock

A small, mushroom shaped pluton with a round top and a flat bottom

Laccolith

A pluton that forms when magma intrudes into parallel layers of rock

Sill

A pluton that cuts across existing rocks

Dike

The process where different minerals form at different temperatures

Fractional crystallization

A theory that when magma cools, minerals form in predictable patterns

Bowen's reaction series