(Redirected from List of longest bridges in the world) This is a list of the world's longest bridges more than three kilometres long sorted by their full length above land or water. Span refers to the longest spans without any ground support. Note: There is no standard way to measure the total length of a bridge.
But the smaller crystals mean that the rest of the cooling happened very quickly. If a rock has both crystal types, it means that the mamga spent some time in a magma chamber, where the large crystals grew, then was violently erupted onto the surface, where the small crystals were formed.
Plutonic rocks, which cool slowly underground, have large crystals because the crystals had enough time to grow to a large size. Volcanic rocks, which cool quickly above ground, have small crystals because the crystals did not have enough time to grow very large. The type of igneous rock is also dependent on its composition (the elements that are present). There are many different compositions of magma and lava. Fortunately, most igneous rocks are one of three basic compositions: 1  Felsic igneous rocks contain relatively high amounts of silicon, sodium, aluminum, potassium (Si, Na, Al, and K) and relatively low amounts of iron, magnesium, and calcium (Fe, Mg, Ca).