Granite is an intrusive igneous rock which means it was formed in place during the cooling of molten rock generally the slower the molten rock cooled the larger it s mineral crystals with k feldspar megacrysts forming in special circumstances greater than 5cm.
What are the modes of occurrence of the granite.
Formed in mountain belts.
Extrusive igneous rocks fine grained or glassy lava flows volcanoes intrusive igneous rocks medium to coarse grained hypabyssal transitional between fine and coarse grained.
A greater amount of plagioclase would designate the rock as.
Intrusive igneous rocks are formed from magma that cools and solidifies within the crust of a planet surrounded by way of pre present rock called us of a rock.
Grained rocks solidified under conditions that favoured the growth of large grains.
They are the dominant rocks in batholiths laccoliths and large sills and dikes.
The modes of occurrence described above are alone almost sufficient to prove that the gold and silver were not introduced into the solid granite by secondary processes related to the formation of quartz veins or incidental to pneumatolysis.
Granite coarse or medium grained intrusive igneous rock that is rich in quartz and feldspar.
Composition intermediate mode of occurrence extrusive.
Mode of occurrence of the different kinds of igneous rocks.
Mode of occurrence of igneous rocks magmas erupted from volcanoes are either poured out as coherent fluidal lava flows or blown out as fragments of various sizes.
Plutonic coarse grained.
It is the most common plutonic rock of the earth s crust forming by the cooling of magma silicate melt at depth.
The magma cools slowly and as a result these rocks are coarse grained.
Relatively high in mg low in si.
Granodiorite ˌ ɡ r æ n oʊ ˈ d aɪ ə r aɪ t n ə is a phaneritic textured intrusive igneous rock similar to granite but containing more plagioclase feldspar than orthoclase feldspar according to the qapf diagram granodiorite has a greater than 20 quartz by volume and between 65 to 90 of the feldspar is plagioclase.
Mode of occurrence intrusive.
Where do we find basalts.
Igneous rock derived from the latin word ignis meaning fire or magmatic rock is one of the three main rock types the others being sedimentary and metamorphic igneous rock is formed through the cooling and solidification of magma or lava the magma can be derived from partial melts of existing rocks in either a planet s mantle or crust typically the melting is caused by one or more of.
These rocks were mostly formed at considerable depth below the earth s surface.
Occurrence of igneous rocks can be either intrusive plutonic or extrusive volcanic.
Granite sources of melt.
Mode of occurrence of igneous rocks.