What is a rock?
A rock is a solid mixture of minerals and other materials.
What is an Igneous Rock?
An Igneous Rock is a type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface.
How does an Igneous Rock form?
Igneous rock may form on or beneath the Earth's surface. Extrusive Rock is igneous rock formed from lava that erupted onto earth's surface. (Ex. Basalt) Basalt is the most common extrusive rock. Basalt forms much of the crust, including the oceanic crust, shield volcanoes and lava plateaus. Igneous rock that formed when magma hardened beneath Earths's surface is called Intrusive Rock. The most common/abundant intrusive rock in continental crust is granite. Batholiths made of granite form the core of many mountain ranges.
What is a Batholith?
A Batholith a mass of rock formed when a large body of magma cools inside the crust.
How does an Igneous Rock turn into a different rock type?
An igneous rock could turn into a metamorphic rock by applying heat, pressure and/or chemical reactions. For instance, you could drop an metemorphic rock into a volcano and it would turn into a Igneous rock.
An igneous rock could turn into a sedimentary rock by compacting igneous rock particles together with other particles of other rocks and the remains of plants and animals.
An igneous rock could turn into a sedimentary rock by compacting igneous rock particles together with other particles of other rocks and the remains of plants and animals.