Rocks
What is a rock type that is created by heat and pressure?
Metamorphic
How are sediments turned into a sedimentary rock?
What is deposition, burial, compaction, cementation.
How are the clastic sedimentary rocks organized?
What is grain size
What are the size of the crystals in pegmatite?
What is grater than 10mm
How do we know pumice cooled quickly from lava solidifying?
What is it has no (or small) crystals
What is a rock type that is formed from volcanic magma solidifying?
igneous
What is melting.
Which sedimentary rock is composed of angular fragments of pebbles, cobbles, boulders, sand, silt, and clay
What is breccia
Name the minerals in basalt
What is plagioclase feldspar, biotite, amphibole, pyroxene, and olivine
What is the parent rock of marble?
What is limestone or dolostone
What is the type of rock formed by layers of sediments?
sedimentary
How is an igneous rock turned into sediments?
What is weathering and erosion.
Which sedimentary rock is composed of cemented shell fragments?
What is the texture of obsidian?
What is glassy or non-crystalline
What is the four rock sequence of foliated metamorphic rocks in order of increasing metamorphism?
What is slate, phyllite, schist and gneiss
What is the igneous rock environment of formation created from lava cooling outside the volcano--more quickly?
What is extrusive
How is an igneous rock turned into a metamorphic rock?
What is heat and pressure
A clastic rock composed of sediments that are 0.1 cm in size is named?
What is sandstone
What rock is non-vesicular, coarse grained, mafic, and monominerallic?
What is dunite
What is the name for the extremely foliated texture of gneiss?
What is banding?
Which rock type is most likely to contain fossils?
Sedimentary
How does magma turn into an igneous rock?
What texture does bituminous coal have?
What is bioclastic (or organic)
Explain why rhyolite has small crystals but granite has large crystals
What is rhyolite came from lava and cooled quickly while granite came from magma and cooled slowly
Which is the only rock type that can have fossils?
What is sedimentary