volcanism/igneous rocks Flashcards

(27 cards)

1
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boyle’s law

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when temperature goes up, pressure goes up

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a slow cooling, intrusive rock

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plutonic

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3
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a volcanic rock with vesicles

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scoria

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4
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black rock, cools very fast, volcanic glass

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obsidian

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5
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cloud of ash, lapilla, blocks, and bombs

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pyroclastic cloud

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6
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material that comes out of volcano

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tephra

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7
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rock made of volcanic material

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tuff

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8
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is granite intrusive or extrusive?

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intrusive

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9
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is rhiolite intrusive or extrusive?

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extrusive

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10
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is diorite intrusive or extrusive?

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intrusive

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11
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is andesite intrusive or extrusive?

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extrusive

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12
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is gabbro intrusive or extrusive?

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intrusive

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13
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is basalt intrusive or extrusive?

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extrusive

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14
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large crystals are…..

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intrusive

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15
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teeny crystals are…..

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extrusive

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16
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large crystal that cools very slowly

17
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cut through grain of rock in the ground

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full of malleable material pushing it’s way to the surface - oozing

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dikes that come together- can be big and form large structures

20
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large cooled plutons

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blister-looking, flatter, cooled plutons

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downward blister of cooled plutons

23
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magma splits into two compositions of rock, one more mafic than the other, makes layers

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fractionation

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result of a giant volcanic eruption or series of eruptions covering large land or the ocean floor with basalt lava. Many flood basalts have been attributed to the onset of a hotspot reaching the surface of the earth via a mantle plume

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flood basalts

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flatter volcano
shield volcano
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big pointy volcano
strato volcano
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hotspots are volcanic locales thought to be fed by an underlying mantle that is anomalously hot compared with the surrounding mantle
hotspots