Mineral Properties
These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.
What are foliated and nonfoliated?
Rocks changing from one type of rock to another.
What is the Rock Cycle?
A mineral with a hardness of 6 that cleaves in 2 directions at 90°
What is potassium feldspar?
The three categories all rocks can be put into.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
A mineral that is an ore of iron and magnetic?
What is Magnetite?
Magma
What is melted rock?
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock?
A mineral that is colorless with glassy luster and used in jewelry
What is Quartz?
Atoms are arranged in an orderly pattern.
What is atomic structure?
Rocks that are clastic (or fragmental).
What are sedimentary rocks?
A rock that was sediment, then went under pressure, then was melted down and crystalized or cooled inside a volcano is this type of rock.
What is a igneous rock?
What is sulfur?
Metamorphism due to contact with or proximity to an igneous intrusion
What is the contact metamorphism?
Magma solidification
What is igneous rock formation?
A mineral that contains iron and magnesium and is granular.
What is Olivine?