If a person were to come into contact with lava, the extreme heat would cause severe burns📉 and likely be fatal. However, it would not turn a person into stone in the way that mythological creatures or📉 folklore suggest. The idea of turning into stone when coming into contact with lava is a misconception.

When magma reaches the surface it is📉 then called lava and the eruptions of lava and ash produce volcanoes. The lava that reaches the Earth's surface will📉 harden and become igneous rock.