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- 3. Texture a rock being pitted with many cavities
- 5. Rock colored plutonic rock found throughout the continental crust
- 8. igneous rock consisting mostly of the silicate minerals olivine and pyroxene
- 10. Rock A rock liquefied by intense heat and pressure
- 11. Rock made from the rapid cooling of lava at Earth's Surface
- 14. reaction series the temperature at which minerals crystallize when cooled
- 16. thick blocky lava flows or steep-sided piles of lava called lava domes.
- 17. composed of interlocking crystals of widely different sizes
- 18. a key factor in making several parts of the body run smoothly
- 20. Texture rock texture in which large crystals
- 22. magnesium iron silicate with the chemical formula (Mg,Fe) 2SiO 4.
- 25. an extrusive rock intermediate in composition between rhyolite and basalt
- 26. rock that is intermediate in composition between granite and gabbro
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- 1. characterized by the presence or formation of vesicles
- 2. Feldspar is a framework silicate
- 4. Rock produced when magma exits and cools above Earths surface
- 6. contains both silicon and oxygen
- 7. rock that contains diamonds in its rock matrix
- 9. the feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or substance.
- 12. Rock form when magma cools under the earth's surface
- 13. Crystallization separating two or more crystalline solids
- 15. chemical element of the alkali metal group
- 17. extrusive igneous rocks, especially basalt
- 19. solid rock resulting from cooling of this.
- 21. is composed of interlocking crystals of widely different sizes
- 23. a silicate mineral in the common mica group
- 24. Melting the mass of a solid rock into a liquid