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 magam?
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 happens to this.

What are sediments?

300

These rocks are 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. (Silicon and Oxygen)

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 metaconglomerate.

What is conglomerate?

500

Two out of five traits that make a mineral, a mineral. 

What is inorganic, solid, has a chemical composition, has a crystal structure, and naturally occurring.

500

The mineral 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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