producing extrusive or volcanic igneous rocks like basalt. As magma cools, the minerals within it begin to crystallize and interlock to create solid rock. The rate of cooling affects the size of ...

Igneous rocks close igneous rockIgneous rocks ... These crystals will grow and interlock to form a hard crystalline rock. Basalt is usually formed when lava solidifies on the earth’s surface ...

An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the ...

The separation of the Seychelles "microcontinent" (the Mascarene Platform) was accompanied by a tremendous outpouring of basaltic lava from this hotspot, giving birth to a mass of igneous rock ...