Minerals
Reference Tables
Igenous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
100
When a mineral breaks along a smooth, flat plane.
What is cleavage?
100
Through heat and/or pressure.
What is how do metarmorphic rocks form?
100
An intrusive, coarse-grained, medium colored rock
What is Diorite?
100
The difference between conglomerate and breccia.
What is fragment shape (not size!)
100
This happens to pressure and temperature as you increase in depth of the earth.
What is increases?
200
The mineral with non-metallic luster and is used in roofing.
What is muscovite mica?
200
Size range for a very coarse igenous rock.
What is 10mm or larger?
200

This must occur to form igenous rocks.

What is solidification of magma?

200
A rock that is made from the decomposition of plants in a swamp environment.
What is coal?
200
The rock formed from metamorphism of dolostone.
What is marble?
300
A mineral that contains calcium and fluorine.
What is flourite?
300
Deposition, compaction, burial, or cementation.
What can happen to sediments?
300
Rich in silicon and aluminum.
What is felsic?
300
A rock that can form bioclastically or chemically.
What is Limestone?
300
Also called alignment of crystals.
What is foliation?
400
The most common group/family of minerals.
What is silicates?
400
The NYS gem.
What is garnet?
400
Meaning gas pockets.
What is vesicular?
400
Another term for fragmental.
What is clastic?
400
The parent rock of schist.
What is slate?
500
Two out of five characteristics that makes up minerals.
What is inorganic, solid, has a chemical composition, has a crystal structure, and naturally occurring.
500
The element found in sandstone, quartzite, and granite.
What is quartz?
500
A rock that has 35% potssium feldspar, 10% Biotite mica, non-vesicular and fine grained.
What is Rhyolite?
500
A rock that has sediments with a diameter of 0.0085cm.
What is sandstone?
500
The only metamorphic rock with banding.
What is Gneiss?
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