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erupt on the ocean floor and produce the extrusive rock pumice. Pumice is a light-weight glass with a vesicular texture that differs from scoria in its silicic composition and therefore floats.
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are volcanic depressions formed after an erupted volcano collapses. Resurgent calderas can refill with an eruption of rhyolitic magma to form the extrusive rock rhyolite like the
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are formed by high viscosity lava that piles up, forming a dome shape. Domes typically solidify to form the rich in silica extrusive rock
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often have andesitic magma and typically form the extrusive rock andesite. Andesitic magma is composed of many gases and melted
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The texture of extrusive rocks is characterized by fine-grained crystals indistinguishable to the human eye, described as
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which are released as free gas, then it may cool with large or small vesicles (bubble-shaped cavities) such as in
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are large, slow forming volcanoes that erupt fluid basaltic magma that cools to form the extrusive rock
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The main effect of extrusion is that the magma can cool much more quickly in the open air or under
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or scoria cones violently expel lava with high gas content, and due to the vapor bubbles in this
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Practical Volcanology: Lecture Notes for Understanding Volcanic Rocks from Field Based Studies
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refers to rocks formed by magma which cools below the surface.
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Fissure volcanoes pour out low viscosity basaltic magma from
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A volcanic rock from Italy with a relatively large six-sided
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domes form the extrusive rock dacite, like in the case of
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A classification of igneous rocks and glossary of terms
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An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
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IUGS
aphanitic
extrusive
igneous rocks

phenocryst
groundmass
thin section
petrographic microscope
igneous
volcanic rock
magma
Earth
lava
atmosphere
pyroclastics
tuff
intrusive rock
seawater
crystals
matrix
crystallize
obsidian
volatile components
pumice
scoria
vesicular
basalt
rhyolite

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