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Igneous rocks form from cooling and solidification of molten rock, either from magma within the Earth’s crust (plutonic rocks), or from lava extruded on to the Earth’s surface in the atmosphere or underwater (volcanic rocks).
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Fernandes, I., Martins, H., Ribeiro, M.A., Noronha, F., Broekmans, M.A.T.M., Sims, I. (2016). Igneous Rocks. In: Fernandes, I., Ribeiro, M., Broekmans, M., Sims, I. (eds) Petrographic Atlas: Characterisation of Aggregates Regarding Potential Reactivity to Alkalis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7383-6_2
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