Volcanoes
Igneous
Misc
Sedimentary #1
Sedimentary #2
100
Cinder Cone, Composite, Shield
What is a volcano?
100
Extrusive rock
What is made outside a volcano?
100
Volcanoes ... Extinct & erupting
What is dead or active?
100
movement of rock
What is erosion?
100
deposition, compaction, cementation (How)
How are sedimentary rocks made?
200
Layers of lava and ash
What is strata?
200
slow cooled, coarse grained?
What is intrusive rock?
200
Used as a building material in many government buildings
What is Granite?
200
breakdown of rock
What is weathering?
200
made from carbon and plant remains
What is coal ?
300
Has a gentle slope ?
What is a Shield volcano.
300
A common Igneous rock (name)
What is Granite / Basalt / Rhyolite etc
300
Determines hardness of 1 ~ 10
What is Mohs scale ?
300
4 types of weathering (name them)
What is wind, water, biological, ice ?
300
Most Important when identifying Clastic Sedimentary rocks
What is (grain) size ?
400
Base of 5o and Summit of 30o
What is composite Volcano ?
400
Phaneritic and Aphanetic
What is the grain size / texture?
400
Adamantine (rock)
What is a diamond?
400
small fragments of rock
What is sediment / clastic
400
Conglomerate & Breccia (difference)
What is rounded / angular ?
500
Dark coloured lava
What is Mafic ?
500
FELspar and SILica
What is felsic?
500
The Geologist Can Find An Ordinary Quartz, (that) Tourists Call Diamond!
What is Talc, Gypsum, Calcite, Fluorite, Apatite, Orthoclase, Quartz, Topaz, Corundium, Diamond.
500
smaller than sand, but larger than clay
What is silt?
500
Rock Salt, Gypsum and Dolostone (texture name)
What is crystalline ?
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