Texture Of Igneous Rocks Ppt
Igneous rocks ppt presentation pdf.
Texture of igneous rocks ppt. Introduction to igneous rocks an igneous rock is any crystalline or glassy rock that forms from cooling of a magma. A magma consists mostly of liquid rock matter but may contain crystals of various minerals and may contain a gas phase that may be dissolved in the liquid or may be present as a separate gas phase. There are six main types of textures. Phaneritic aphanitic porphyritic glassy pyroclastic and pegmatitic.
Igneous rocks is the primary type of rocks that formed by direct solidification or crystalization due to the cooling down of molten magma or lava at high temperatures ranges from 650 to 1300 o c. Magma can cool to form an igneous rock either on the surface of the earth. Lava magma that flows out onto earth s surface. Igneous rock textures 1.
An igneous rock is any crystalline or glassy rock that forms from cooling of a magma. Introduction to igneous rocks. That types of igneous rocks that formed beneath the surface of the earth. What are igneous rocks.
A magma consists mostly of liquid rock matter but may contain crystals of various minerals and may contain a gas phase that may be dissolved in the liquid or may be present as a separate gas phase. Igneous rock textures by. Igneous textures include the rock textures occurring in igneous rocks igneous textures are used by geologists in determining the mode of origin igneous rocks and are used in rock classification. Plutonic or intrusive igneous rocks.