Common examples of igneous rocks, which are demonstrated for studying rock characteristics include pumice, basalt, granite, gabbro, obsidian and rhyolite.he most abundant rock in the earth's crust is none other than the igneous rock type. It alone accounts to about 90 percent of all rocks in the top layer of the earth's crust.
The official state bird of Florida is the Northern Mocking bird, at least for now. The Florida Scrub Jay or possibly the Osprey may end up ousting the Mockingbird as our state bird.
Florida Facts; Florida State Symbols; State Flag; State Flag. The current design of Florida's state flag was adopted in 1900. In that year, Florida voters ratified a constitutional amendment based on an 1899 joint resolution of the state legislature to add diagonal red bars, in the form of a St. Andrew's cross, to the flag. Between 1868 and 1900, Florida's state flag consisted of a white field with the state seal in the center. During the late 1890s, Governor Francis P. Fleming suggested that a red cross be added, so that the banner did not appear to be a white flag of truce or surrender when hanging still on a flagpole.