Is Phaneritic Intrusive or Extrusive?

Phaneritic (phaner = visible) textures are typical of intrusive igneous rocks, these rocks crystallized slowly below Earth's surface.

Is Aphanitic intrusive or extrusive?

Intrusive igneous rocks thus have coarse-grained, or phaneritic, textures with visible crystals, and extrusive igneous rocks have fine-grained, or aphanitic, texture.

Is porphyritic intrusive or extrusive?

Porphyritic texture -- andesite: This is an extrusive igneous rock. The magma from which it formed cooled slowly for a while deep below the surface (forming the large crystals), then finished cooling very quickly when it was ejected at the surface, forming the fine-grained groundmass.

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