Silicate igneous rocks make up the ________.
A) bulk of volcanic mountains but not much else on Earth
B) bulk of the Earth's crust and mantle
C) densest rocks and are mainly found in the core
D) majority of shallow rocks covering the continents but everything deeper is sedimentary and metamorphic
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Q1: Plutonic rocks are emplaced at depth yet
Q3: The molten portion of magmas and lavas
Q4: The earliest formed crystals (phenocrysts)in a magma
Q5: All of the following are factors that
Q6: Three processes contribute to the formation of
Q7: Which of the following is the major
Q8: _ are dissolved in melts at depth
Q9: The process of _ is driven by
Q10: The mechanism of magmatic differentiation involving the
Q11: Explosive volcanic eruptions occur _.
A)when crystallization forces
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