Texture of Igneous Rocks
Across
- 3. crystals in fine grained matrix
- 4. lithified particles in clastic rocks
- 5. This rock is formed from intrusive plutonic magma that slowly cooled and crystalized many minerals
- 6. This rock is formed from extrusive cooled lava flow
- 7. This glassy rock is vesicular and very very very light in weight
- 9. visible crystals
- 11. to bind together
- 13. glassy
- 15. very small crystals
- 17. Granite - _____ - Diorite
- 18. This rock is the most silica-rich of the volcanic rocks. Think sandy!
Down
- 1. The pyroclastic rock that entombed the people of Pompeii
- 2. This rock is the intermediate of Granite and Gabbro
- 8. This vesicular type of rock is often red in color due to oxidation of iron
- 10. Igneous + Fragment
- 11. a large conspicuous crystal in a porphyritic rock
- 12. This non-crystalized rock is glassy and black
- 14. rocks composed of broken pieces of older rocks
- 16. This rock is type is noted by its large phenocrysts of various minerals embedded in a fine-grained matrix
- 17. This rock is phaneritic, mafic, intrusive and similar in composition to Basalt