Metamorphic
Metamorphism that occurs over a large area.
What is regional metamorphism?
Factors that affect the melting of rocks
What are temperature, pressure, and added fluids?
Formation of sedimentary rocks happens how?
Types of rocks
What are metamorphic, sedimentary, and igneous?
Stone used for statues, is metamorphic, and forms from the compression of limestone.
What is marble?
Rock texture in which mineral grains are arranged in planes or bands.
What is foliation?
Textures of igneous rocks.
What are intrusive and extrusive?
Forms when minerals precipitate from a solution
What is chemical sedimentary rock?
Describes the natural processes through which each type of rock can change into any other type of rock.
What is the rock cycle?
Family light colored igneous rocks are usually a part of.
What is the felsic family?
Two types of metamorphism?
What is contact and regional?
Large proportion of silica
What is felsic rock?
Forms when fragments of preexisting rocks are compacted or cemented together?
What is clastic sedimentary rock?
Affects the stability of rocks
What are chemical factors and physical factors?
Example of chemical sedimentary rock.
What is evaporites: gypsum or halite?
What is metamorphism?
Coarse grains formed from cooling and solidifying of magma beneath the Earth
What is Intrusive rocks?
Sorting and angularity
What are characteristics of clastic sediments?
Rock that forms from changing temperature and pressure
What is metamorphic rock?
Clastic sedimentary rock.
What is conglomerate, sandstone, breccia, or shale?
Metamorphic rock texture in which mineral grains are not arranged in planes or bands.
What is nonfoliated?
Formed from cooling and solidification of lava on the Earth's surface
What is Extrusive?
Number of features you can use to identify the depositional environment in which sedimentary rocks form.
What is 7?
Forms from erosion, deposition, and cementation.
What is sedimentary rock?
Composed of rounded, pebble-sized fragments held together by cement
What is conglomerate?