Metamorphic Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks part 2
Metamorphic Rocks Part 3
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Heat, Pressure and hydrothermal solutions.
What are the agents of metamorphism?
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Metamorphism that occurs over large areas.
What is regional metamorphism?
100
The two textures that classify metamorphic rocks.
What are foliated and non-foliated?
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Place where most metamorphic changes take place.
What is a few kilometers beneath the earth's surface and extending into the upper mantle.
200
Level of metamorphism that regional metamorphism produces.
What is high-grade metamorphism?
200
One way we can tell if a rock is foliated.
What is a layered or banded appearance?
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When hot magma moves into rock.
What is contact metamorphism?
300
This is the most important agent of metamorphism.
What is heat?
300
One example of foliated rock.
What is (Gneiss or schist)
400
Water
What thing does metamorphic rocks lose because of transformation?
400
This agent of metamorphism is most important because_____.
What is it provides energy to drive chemical reactions?
400
One way that we can identify non-foliated rock.
What is its lack of a banded or layered appearance?
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level of metamorphism that contact metamorphism produces.
What is low-grade metamorphism?
500
Two reactions caused by heat.
What are recrystallization of existing minerals and new minerals to form?
500
Another way to identify a non-foliated rock. One example of a non-foliated rock is________
What is it only has one mineral? What is marble or quartzite?)
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