1. Section 1: What are igneous rocks?
Igneous rocks are the rocks that form when molten material cools and crystallizes. K
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2. Essential Questions How do igneous rocks form?
How can the composition of magma be described?
What are the factors that affect how rocks melt and crystallize?
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3. Vocabulary Review New silicate lava igneous rock partial melting
Bowen’s reaction series
fractional crystallization
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4. Lava is magma that flows out onto Earth’s surface.
Igneous Rock Formation
Lava is magma that flows out onto Earth’s surface.
Igneous rocks form when lava or magma cools and minerals crystallize.
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5. Igneous Rock Formation
Composition of magma
The type of igneous rock that forms depends on the composition of the magma, which is often a slushy mix of molten rock, dissolved gases, and mineral crystals.
Magma is classified as basaltic, andesitic, or rhyolitic, based on the amount of silica it contains. Silica affects melting temperature and impacts how quickly magma flows.
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7. Igneous Rock Formation
Magma formation
Magma can be formed either by melting of Earth’s crust or by melting within the mantle.
The four main factors involved in the formation of magma are temperature, pressure, water content, and mineral content.
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8. Igneous Rock Formation
Magma formation
Temperature generally increases with depth in Earth’s crust. This temperature increase is known as the geothermal gradient.
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9. Igneous Rock Formation
Magma formation
Pressure also increases with depth as a result of the weight of overlying rock. The increased pressure on a rock also increases the rock’s melting point.
Rocks and minerals often contain small percentages of water, which changes the melting point of the rocks. As water content increases, the melting point decreases.
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10. Igneous Rock Formation
Mineral content
Rocks melt at lower or higher temperatures because their component minerals have lower or higher melting points. In general, rocks that are rich in iron and magnesium melt at higher temperatures than rocks that contain higher levels of silicon.
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11. Igneous Rock Formation
Partial melting
The process whereby some minerals melt at relatively low temperatures while other minerals remain solid is called partial melting.
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12. Igneous Rock Formation
Partial melting
If temperatures are not high enough to melt the entire rock, the resulting magma will have a different composition than that of the original rock.
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13. Bowen’s Reaction Series
Canadian geologist N. L. Bowen demonstrated that as magma cools and crystallizes, minerals form in predictable patterns in a process now known as the Bowen’s reaction series.
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14. Bowen’s Reaction Series
Bowen discovered two main patterns, or branches, of crystallization.
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15. Bowen’s Reaction Series
Iron-rich minerals
The left branch of Bowen’s reaction series represents the iron-rich minerals, which undergo abrupt changes as magma cools and crystallizes.
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16. Bowen’s Reaction Series
Feldspars
The right branch of Bowen’s reaction series represents the plagioclase feldspars, which undergo a continuous change of composition as magma cools.
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17. Fractional Crystallization
When magma cools, the first minerals that crystallize are the last minerals that melted during partial melting. This process is called fractional crystallization.
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18. Visualizing Fractional Crystallization and Crystal Settling
In the basaltic intrusion of the Palisade Sills in the Hudson River valley of New York and New Jersey, small crystals formed in the chill zone as the outer areas of the intrusion cooled more quickly than the interior.
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20. Fractional Crystallization
Under certain conditions, newly formed crystals can be removed from magma, ending the chemical reactions between the magma and the minerals.
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21. Review Essential Questions Vocabulary How do igneous rocks form?
How can the composition of magma be described?
What are the factors that affect how rocks melt and crystallize?
Vocabulary
lava
igneous rock
partial melting
Bowen’s reaction series
fractional crystallization
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