This mineral, the most common mineral on Earth, has a vitreous luster, can scratch glass, and no cleavage planes.
What is quartz?
100
This is the geologic setting that forms small-sized grains as a result of cooling for a long time within the Earth
What is intrusive?
100
These are the two primary factors that lead to the formation of metamorphic rocks
What are temperature and pressure
100
These are the two main types of sedimentary rocks
What are detrital and chemical?
100
This is the type of rock that makes up the Pike's Peak batholith
What is granite?
200
This mineral reacts with hydrochloric acid
What is calcite?
200
These low-viscosity magmas are responsible for the broad volcanoes on Hawaii
What are shield volcanoes?
200
This is the result of pressure that is unequal in all directions.
What is differential pressure.
200
This depositional environment typically produces sandstones that are fine-grained, well-sorted, and well rounded with cross bedding.
What are sand dunes?
200
This rock, also known as table salt, is a result of seas evaporating.
What is halite?
300
This mineral is one of the softest minerals and is an evaporite
What is gypsum?
300
This type of igneous rock is generally very dark and is fine-grained.
What is basalt?
300
This rock is non-foliated and comes from fused together sand grains.
What is quartzite?
300
This is the rock most likely to form in a shallow marine setting that has an abundance of marine organisms.
What is limestone?
300
This type of rock has pebble sized grains or greater as a result of being deposited in a high-energy stream or an alluvial fan.
What is conglomerate?
400
This mineral has a red streak and is responsible for the distinctive red color in the Fountain Formation.
What is hematite?
400
This type of igneous rock has a high proportion of quartz of feldspar.
What is granite
400
Out of Gneiss, Phyllite, Slate, and Schist, this rock underwent the highest amount of metamorphism.
What is gneiss?
400
This is probably what happened to sea level if you see a sandstone on top of a conglomerate.
What is increase?
400
This is what you would call the contact between an igneous rock and a sedimentary rock.
What is a nonconformity?
500
This mineral has cleavage planes in 2 directions and is a major component of Pike's Peak Granite.
What is feldspar?
500
The "Ring of Fire" is a common name for the volcanoes that circle the Pacific Ocean. These volcanoes formed as the result of oceanic plates colliding with continental ones creating a ________________.
What is a subduction zone?
500
This would be texture found in rock that is foliated and has abundant biotite and muscovite
What is schistosity?
500
It is from here that limestone acquires it's calcium carbonate.
What are marine organisms?
500
In 1980, Mt. St Helens erupted violently and is classified as this type of volcano (think about where it is and what volcanoes typically form there).