Volvanoes
make many different types of rocks. For example, black shiny rocks with
only a few crystals are usually basalt. The opposite - white shiny rocks
with
many
crystals and often many bubble holes inside the rock is rhyolite. In between
are andesites, which are light gray and usually have large box-shaped crystals
called
plagioclase. They come from the Andes Mountains, which is a chain of volcanoes
in South America. The Hawaiian islands are mostly made up
of
basalts, so they are famous for their beautiful black-sand beaches.
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