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How does cooling rates affect the grain sizes in igneous rocks?.

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If magma cools quickly, for example when basalt lava erupts from a volcano, then many crystals form very quickly, and the resulting rock is fine-grained, with crystals usually less than 1mm in size. If magma is trapped underground in an igneous intrusion, it cools slowly because it is insulated by the surrounding rock.

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