Igneous Rocks
What is magma?
What is sediment?
The process of formation of metamorphic rocks
What is intense heat and pressure?
What is radiometric dating?
The highest stage reached during a flood
What is the crest?
The two compositions that the color index determines
What are mafic and felsic?
The four agents of transport of sediment
Mineral that makes schist shiny and sparkly
What is mica (muscovite/biotite)?
What is a nonconformity?
Place where there is the most erosion along a stream
What is the cutbank?
Texture with massive crystals
What is pegmatic?
The two processes of lithification
What are compaction and cementation?
Agent of metamorphism found at deep ocean locations
What are hot fluids?
The location of the youngest layer in an anticline
What is the outside?
Stream type that includes the Paint Branch Stream
What is meandering?
The plate boundary where granite frequently forms
What is the Grand Canyon?
What metamorphic rock are a large amount of the D.C. monuments made out of
Direct of movement of the hanging wall at a convergent boundary
What is up?
Abundant mineral found in streams including what we looked at
What is quartz?
The type of fault where you would find basalt formation
What is a normal fault?
Type of environment that shale would form in
What is a slow moving and low energy environment?
Protolith of Gneiss
Shale
Plate boundary of Pacific and Eurasian plates near Japan
Type of sedimentary rock likely to form in a stream/river environment like the one we looked at
What is conglomerate?