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What the r*ck? Mmmm, that feels good. Burning Up How low can you go? Rocking Pics! 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500 The type of rock used for tombstones, monuments and construction. What is granite? The extrusive equivalent of granite and is composed mostly of the light-coloured silicates. What is rhyolite? This rock has a salt and pepper appearance. What is diorite? A medium-grey, fine-grained rock of volcanic origin. The name comes from Andes Mountains. What is andesite? A type of seasoning sheep put on their fries. A very dark green-black, fine-grained volcanic rock. What is basalt? Rocks that contain this texture are said to feel like gas bubbles. What is a vesicular texture? This is known a fine-grained texture. What is an aphanitic texture? This is known as a coarse-grained texture. What is a phaneritic texture? Rapid cooling causes this texture. What is a glassy texture? A rock that has large crystals embedded in a matrix of smaller crystals is said to have this texture. What is a porphyritic texture? A board, gently sloping volcano built from fluid basaltic lavas. What is a shield volcano? A small volcano built of ejected lava fragments that consist mostly of pea-towalnut size lapilli. What is a cinder cone? Also known as stratovolcanoes. What is a composite cone? Curved belts of volcanic islands. What is the ring of fire? A volcano composed of both lava flows and pyroclastic material. What is a stratovolcano? Magma that reaches the Earth’s surface. What is lava? Pertaining to activities, structures or rock types of a volcano. What is volcanic? Igneous activity that occurs at the Earth’s surface. What is extrusive? Igneous rock that forms below the Earth’s surface. What is intrusive? Named after the God of the lower world. What is plutonic? What is tuff? What is peridotite? What is volcanic breccia? What is komatiite? What is obsidian?