Single stage cooling can also produce a porphyritic texture. In a porphyritic texture, the larger grains are called phenocrysts and the material surrounding the the phenocrysts is called groundmass or matrix
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A fine grained texture is the product of rapid cooling and crystallization of lava A Phaneritic texture is a characterstic of a ______ Igneous rock that cooled ______
Igneous rock has a coarse texture and is dark in color.
Intrusive Igneous Rocks: Slow cooling means the individual mineral grains have a very long time to grow, so they grow to a relatively large size. Intrusive rocks have a coarse grained texture.
(a) Said of a crystalline rock, and of its texture, in which the individual minerals are relatively large; specif. said of an igneous rock whose particles have an average diameter greater than 5 mm (0.2 in.).
Coarse-grained textures generally indicate magmas that slowly cooled deep underground. Slow cooling gives crystals enough time to grow to easily seen sizes (i.e., larger than 1 mm). The first-formed crystals tend to have regular shapes because they grow freely into the surrounding liquid.
Intrusive, or plutonic, igneous rocks form when magma cools slowly below the Earth's surface.
igneous rockExtrusive, or volcanic, igneous rock is produced when magma exits and cools above (or very near) the Earth's surface. These are the rocks that form at erupting volcanoes and oozing fissures.
Definition of 'coarse-grained' 1. having a coarse texture or grain. 2. indelicate; crude; vulgar; gross. a coarse-grained person with vulgar manners.
Coarse grain varieties (with mineral grains large enough to see without a magnifying glass) are called phaneritic. Granite and gabbro are examples of phaneritic igneous rocks.
Coarse grains generally refers to cereal grains other than wheat and rice — in the OECD countries, those used primarily for animal feed or brewing.
APHANITIC TEXTURE - Igneous rocks that form on the earth's surface have very fine-grained texture because the crystals are too small to see without magnification. PHANERITIC TEXTURE - Igneous rocks with large, visible crystals because the rock formed slowly in an underground magma chamber.
Aphanitic - This texture describes very fine grained rock where individual crystals can be seen only with the aid of a microscope, i.e. the rock is mostly groundmass. An aphanitic texture is developed when magma is erupted at the Earth's surface and cools too quickly for large crystals to grow.
slowlyIntrusive rocks, also called plutonic rocks, cool slowly without ever reaching the surface. They have large crystals that are usually visible without a microscope. This surface is known as a phaneritic texture.