The source material for igneous rocks.
What are magma and lava?
The group of sedimentary rock that is composed of organic material, such as compacted plant remains.
What are Bioclastic sedimentary rocks?
The continuous changing and remaking of rocks.
What is the Rock Cycle?
The name of the type of texture that a rock with air bubbles has
What is Dunite?
Name of the process by which sediments pile up on the ground or sink to the bottom of bodies of water, to be turned into a rock later.
What is deposition?
This Sedimentary rock is made up of shell fragments cemented together by calcite "glue."
What is Limestone?
Fine grained igneous rocks that cool quickly above the Earth's surface
Extrusive igneous rocks
Course grained igneous rocks that cool slowly beneath the Earth's surface.
What are Intrusive Igneous Rocks?
Clastic sedimentary rock that is composed of angular fragments of various sizes.
What is Breccia?
Clastic sedimentary rock made up of rounded fragments of various sizes
What is Conglomerate?
Igneous rocks that are dark in color with very high levels of iron and magnesium.
What are Mafic (Igneous) rocks?
What is Grain Size?
The process that occurs as magma or lava begins to cool, to form igneous rock grains.
What is crystallization?
Extrusive igneous rock that usually appears black, even though it's felsic
What is Obsidian?
The two processes by which crystalline sedimentary rocks form
What are precipitation and evaporation?
*We haven't covered this yet but we will soon!*
This process reveals rocks that have been buried underground, exposing them at the surfaace.
What is Uplift? (Take a look at Pg 6 of ESRT!)
This must happen for Metamorphic rocks to become Igneous rocks.
What is melting, cooling and crystallization?