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When magma solidifies far belows earth's surface they form what?
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When magma reaches the earth's surface, it is called lava. when it solidifies, it forms new crust, or rock.
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∙ 13y agoRising magma causes volcanoes.
Intrusions.
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∙ 13y agoigneous rock
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∙ 14y agoIgneous rock.
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∙ 11y agoIntrusive igneous rocks
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What are structures that form when magma solidifies beneath earth's surface called?
igneous, magmatic
Mountains formed by magma that reaches the Earths surface are?
Mountains formed by magma that reaches the Earth's surface are called volcanoes.
Magma that has reached the earths surface?
This name is lava.
Melted rock below earths surface?
Magma is the geological term for melted or molten rock below the earth's surface. Once the magma has reached the surface it is called lava.
What is the process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises to earth's surface and solidifies at a mid-ocean ridge?
seafloor spreading
What is a igneous rock that forms when magma solidifies beneath the earths surface?
Obsidian
What happens when magma rises to the surface?
It cools and solidifies into a sedimentary rock.
What term refers to magma at the earths surface?
Magma once it reaches the earths surface is called lava.
Magma that solidifies before reaching the earth's surface is called?
When magma solidifies before reaching Earth's surface it is called intrusive igneous rock, plutonic rock, a pluton. Igneous rock is formed from crystallization of molten magma.
What is the magma when it reaches the earths surface?
Magma that reaches the Earth's surface is known as lava.
What are the sub categories of igneous rocks?
The two types are extrusive igneous rock, which solidifies from magma on the surface, and intrusive igneous rock, which solidifies below the surface. Basalt is extrusive, granite is intrusive.
What is the name for lava before it leaves the volcano?
its magma before it reaches earths surface. lava is when its at earths surface
Type of igneous rock which is formed when magma underneath the earths surface solidifies and hardens?
Well, there are a few formations ; sills, loccoliths, lopoliths, dykes, layered igneous intrusions and batholyths.
What are structures that form when magma solidifies beneath earth's surface called?
igneous, magmatic
Magma that reaches the earths surface?
Magma that reaches earth's surface is called lava.
What is magma that flows out on to earths surface?
Lava.
What is the name for magma that has erupted?
Lava. Note: Magma cant erupt, volcanoes do. Magma is just the word for molten rock beneath the earths surface, lava is for molten rock above the earths surface.
