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Effusive rocks
Effusive Ef*fu"sive, a. Pouring out; pouring forth freely. ``Washed with the effusive wave.' --Pope. Effusive rocks (Geol.), volcanic rocks, in distinction from so-called intrusive, or plutonic, rocks. -- Ef*fu"sive*ly, adv. -- Ef*fu"sive*ness, n.

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- Volcanic rocks (often shortened to volcanics in scientific contexts) are rocks formed from lava erupted from a volcano. Like all rock types, the concept...
- fragments. A tuffite consists of angular and/or rounded fragments of effusive rocks and their minerals, and may also contain volcanic ash, pumice, and clay...
- characterized as either explosive eruptions, sudden ejections of rock and ash, or effusive eruptions, relatively gentle outpourings of lava. A separate list is given...
- consisting of m****ive effusive rocks made up of basaltic sheets separated by volcanic ashes and tuffs, mixed with terrigenous rocks with layers of coal...
- Goat Rocks is an extinct stratovolcano in the Cascade Range, located between Mount Rainier and Mount Adams in southern Washington, in the United States...
- reaches a height of 1,990 m (6,530 ft). Munella is primarily composed of effusive rocks up to an elevation of 1,400 m (4,600 ft), overlaid by a Cretaceous limestone...
- rhyolitic magma extremely viscous. This favors explosive eruptions over effusive eruptions, so this type of magma is more often erupted as pyroclastic rock...
- about 80 km (50 mi). The only rocks that do not seem to be related to the caldera are scattered ****s and small effusive flows of the Taylor Brook rhyolites...
- primarily of Mesozoic limestone, flysch, Paleogene and less of shale and effusive rocks, it has a wrinkled, blocky and scaly structure, highly fragmented by...
- 133°0′0″E / 50.00000°N 133.00000°E / 50.00000; 133.00000 Geology Orogeny Alpine orogeny Rock type(s) Granite, gneiss, sedimentary and effusive rocks...