Basically two ways. Intrusive igneous rock is formed when magma cools and solidifies beneath the surface of the earth. These rocks are also called plutonic rocks.
Hurricane Irma is the strongest Atlantic basin hurricane ever recorded outside the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. It lasted as a hurricane from August 31 until September 11. The storm, which stretched 650 miles from east to west, affected at least nine US states, turning streets into rivers, ripping down power lines, uprooting trees and cutting off coastal communities.
(Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post) (This story, first posted on Wednesday, was updated Thursday morning.) For nearly two days, monstrous Hurricane Irma has sustained Category 5 winds of at least 180 miles per hour while ripping through the northern Lesser Antilles and Virgin Islands. The storm, tied for the second-strongest ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean, is headed for the southeastern Bahamas and, by the weekend and early next week, Florida and the Southeast United States. [Florida governor warns Hurricane Irma is âdeadly and will cause devastationâ]