Is obsidian an instrusive or extrusive igneous rock how do you know?

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2026-04-20 21:20

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Obsidian is an extrusive rock and is formed from rapidly cooling magma.

Obsidian is also known as volcanic glass and one can find only sub-microscopic crystals in it. This is because it was cooled too fastly for large crystals to form. If the material that obsidian consists of were an intrusive rock and had a lot of time to cool down, one would find that it would be composed of easily visible crystals.

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