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Earth and Space Sciences · Glossary

What is Volcanic rock; plutonic rock?

Also known as: volcanic rock · plutonic rock

Definition 17.1 High School Earth and Space Sciences · Chapter 17 — Igneous Rocks

An igneous rock, formed by the crystallisation of a magma, is volcanic (or extrusive) when the magma solidified at the Earth’s surface, as a lava, and plutonic (or intrusive) when it crystallised at depth, inside other rocks.

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