What is frozen lava called?

Magma and lava solidify in much the same way that water freezes. When magma or lava cools down enough, it solidi- fies, or "freezes," to form igneous rock.
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What are solidified lava called?

When lava comes out of a volcano and solidifies into extrusive igneous rock, also called volcanic, the rock cools very quickly. Crystals inside solid volcanic rocks are small because they do not have much time to form until the rock cools all the way, which stops the crystal growth.
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What is cold lava called?

Lava rock, also known as igneous rock, is formed when volcanic lava or magma cools and solidifies. It is one of the three main rock types found on Earth, along with metamorphic and sedimentary.
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Is there frozen lava?

It takes a long time for magma to cool down, so the crystals have time to grow bigger. Granite is a rock that is formed when magma cools down underground. This is a lava tube. Lava has frozen on the surface, but is still running along below.
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Is there blue lava?

Blue lava, also known as Api Biru, and simply referred to as blue fire or sulfur fire, is a phenomenon that occurs when sulfur burns. It is an electric-blue flame that has the illusory appearance of lava.
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Is obsidian real?

Obsidian is an "extrusive” rock, which means it is made from magma that erupted out of a volcano. If it was an igneous rock that formed from magma underground and did not erupt, it would have been called an "intrusive" rock.
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What are the 4 different types of lava?

Because of the role of silica in determining viscosity and because many other properties of a lava (such as its temperature) are observed to correlate with silica content, silicate lavas are divided into four chemical types based on silica content: felsic, intermediate, mafic, and ultramafic.
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Can lava be cold?

Based on studies of lava flow cooling rates, it will take more than 130 days for a flow this thick (about 4.5 m, or 15 ft) to cool to a temperature of about 200 degrees Celsius (290 degrees Fahrenheit).
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What does lahar mean?

Definition: A lahar is a hot or cold mixture of water and rock fragments that flow quickly down the slopes of a volcano.
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What is ropy lava?

Definition of ropy lava

: lava marked with wrinkles resembling rope : pahoehoe.
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What is cooling magma?

Magma is molten rock material. As magma cools the elements within the magma combine and crystalize into minerals that form an igneous rock. Magma cools either below the surface or at the surface (magma that reaches the surface is called lava). As magma cools igneous rock is formed.
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What are the 2 types of lava?

Lavas, particularly basaltic ones, come in two primary types: pahoehoe (pronounced 'paw-hoey-hoey") and aa (pronounced "ah-ah").
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What is a lump of lava called?

A volcanic bomb or lava bomb is a mass of molten rock (tephra) larger than 64 mm (2.5 inches) in diameter, formed when a volcano ejects viscous fragments of lava during an eruption.
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What are 3 types of lava?

The high temperatures and pressure under Earth's crust keep magma in its fluid state. There are three basic types of magma: basaltic, andesitic, and rhyolitic, each of which has a different mineral composition.
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What is viscous lava?

When lava has a high viscosity, it's very thick and doesn't flow very well at all. Instead of rivers of lava, you can get crumbling piles of rock flowing down hill. It can also clog up the volcanic vent and form blocks that resist the flow of lava.
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Can you pee in lava?

While exploring an active volcano, Dante Lopardo decided to urinate on some molten rock, which has a temperature of about 700°C. As seen in the video Lopardo took, the pee instantly vaporizes as it hits the liquid rock and the lava sizzles. It also leaves something of a charred black mark after sizzling off.
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Can a diamond survive in lava?

To put it simply, a diamond cannot melt in lava, because the melting point of a diamond is around 4500 °C (at a pressure of 100 kilobars) and lava can only be as hot as about 1200 °C.
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Can u drink lava?

Wax, kerosene, and polyethylene glycol are found, all dissolved in water. Wax is, in general, non-toxic in humans. Kerosene, at least in the amount that could be found in a lava lamp, is not poisonous, but the polyethylene glycol, could be a problem.
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Is there red lava?

The color of lava depends on its temperature. It starts out bright orange (1000-1150 C). As it cools the color changes to bright red (800-1000 C), then do dark red (650-800 C), and to brownish red (500-650 C). Solid lava is black (but can still be very hot).
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Is green lava real?

The green gems are olivine crystals, a common mineral found in Hawaii's lava. At jewelry quality, the mineral is called peridot. As the volcano erupts, it blasts apart molten lava, allowing for green olivine minerals to be separated from the rest of the melt and fall as tiny gemstones.
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What causes pink lava?

Hours before the volcano woke, it spewed a plume of pink ash hundreds of feet into the air. How come? Janine Krippner, a volcanologist at Concord University in West Virginia, said via Twitter the plume is pink because the basaltic rock surrounding the Pu'u 'O'o crater is red.
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What is rainbow obsidian?

Rainbow Obsidian was formed when lava once cooled at different times, and captured Magnetite nanoparticles within these layers. The Magnetite nanoparticles cause multicolored iridescence that shines bright when any light hits it.
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How is Dragon glass made?

Characteristics. Obsidian is volcanic glass formed by immense heat and pressure in the earth. Smallfolk like to say that dragonglass is made by dragons, while maesters say it comes from the fires of the earth.
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Is Crying obsidian real?

Crying obsidian is a decorative block that is used to create respawn anchors. They appear like purple blocks and these blocks produce purple dripping particles as if it is "crying".
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