Metamorphic
Sedimentary
Weathering
Sedimentary Environments
Metamorphic Part 2
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Takes place when a body of magma alters the surrounding country rock
What is Contact Metamorphism
100
Detrital sedimentary rock made of rounded particles.
What is Conglomerate?
100
The repeated process of freezing and thawing.
What is Frost Wedging?
100
Place where coal is formed.
What is a swamp?
100
Very fine grained metamorphic rock
What is Slate?
200
Associated with fault zones where rocks are subjected to high differential pressures
What is dynamic metamorphism
200
Detrital sedimentary rock made of broken fragments.
What is Breccia?
200
Factors that control weathering.
What are Surface Area, parent material, and climate.
200
Fine particles that are well-sorted are indicative of what kind of transport?
What is WIND?
200
Marble, Quartzite, Greenstone, Hornfel, Anthracite
What is a Non-foliated Metamorphic rock?
300
heat, pressure, and fluid activity
What is the three agents of metamorphism?
300
The sedimentary rocks made of CaCO3.
What are LS, Oolitic LS, Coquina, Travertine, Lith.LS.
300
Erosional process common in deserts where the temperature varies greatly from day to night.
What is thermal expansion/contraction.
300
With these two sedimentary rocks that you can start a fire!
What is flint and coal.
300
Metamorphic rocks used in art and architecture.
What are Marble and Slate?
400
Metamorphic rock that has stripes (not granite!!!!!)
What is Gneiss?
400
Place where Chert is formed.
What is the deep ocean?
400
Mechanical weathering process due to release of overburden.
What is Pressure Release?
400
Small ridges with intervwening troughs, giving them a corrugated appearance. Indicate wave direction.
What are Ripple Marks.
400
The type of metamorphism found along the western margin of South America, due to the convergence of the Nazca and SA plate.
What is regional metamorphism?
500
The region between isograds
What is metamorphic zones?
500
The Evaporites....
What are Rock Gypsum and Rock Salt?
500
Chemical weathering process responsible for cave formation.
What is dissolution?
500
Explain the sedimentary facies and transgression/regression.
Draw on the board!
500
Causes the most heat and pressure
What is Converging Plate Boundaries?
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