Air pockets, or vesicles, can form in rapidly cooling magma or lava. In which type of rock would you expect ai

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Air pockets, or vesicles, can form in rapidly cooling magma or lava. In which type of rock would you expect air pockets

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In extrusive (volcanic) igneous rocks — those that cool rapidly at the surface. Rapidly solidified lava traps gas bubbles, producing vesicular textures in rocks like pumice, scoria and vesicular basalt.

Air pockets, or vesicles, can form in rapidly cooling magma or lava. In which type of rock would you expect air pockets

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