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Igneous rocks are formed through the crystallization of... |
Magma |
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Igneous rocks that form near or on the surface of the earth |
Extrusive |
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Igneous rocks that form under the surface of earth |
Intrusive |
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The most common intrusive igneous rock is... |
Granite |
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What is Latin for fire? |
Ignis |
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The three types of magma are... |
Basaltic, granitic, and andesitic |
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The word for "how lava flows" |
Viscosity |
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A pocket of cooled magma |
Pegmatite |
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Minerals from cooling magma that combine to form intrusive igneous rock bodies |
Pluton |
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The largest type of pluton |
Batholith |
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Irregularly shaped plutons that are smaller than batholiths |
Stock |
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A small, mushroom shaped pluton with a round top and a flat bottom |
Laccolith |
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A pluton that forms when magma intrudes into parallel layers of rock |
Sill |
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A pluton that cuts across existing rocks |
Dike |
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The process where different minerals form at different temperatures |
Fractional crystallization |
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A theory that when magma cools, minerals form in predictable patterns |
Bowen's reaction series |