Rock/Mineral Vocabulary 1
A solid in which atoms are arranged in repeating patterns. Forms in open and closed spaces.
What is the most noticeable characteristics of a mineral?
Color
When sediments are laid down on the ground or sink to the bottoms of bodies of water.
Deposition
Rocks that form from erupting volcanoes and oozing fissures.
Extrusive Igneous rocks
The most common intrusive igneous rock that is used for counter tops.
Granite.
Minerals that contain silicon and oxygen, and usually one or more other elements.
Silicates
Fine-grained igneous rocks that cool quickly on the Earth's surface
Extrusive
Mineral
Rocks that form from magma that has cooled deep within the Earth
Intrusive Igneous Rock
A sedimentary rock is used to make the most common type of cement.
Limestone
Color of a mineral when it is broken up and powdered
Streak
Mafic
A mineral that contains a useful substance that can be mined at a profit.
Ore
Rocks that are made up of pieces of preexisting rocks.
Sedimentary Rocks
An unfoliated metamorphic rock that used to be limestone, and is used as flooring tile, cemetery stones, table tops, monuments
Marble
Minerals that break with rough or jagged edges are said to have?
Fracture
Rock and mineral fragments produced by weathering
Clastic sediments
Percentage of open spaces between grains in a rock
Porosity
Rocks that form from high heat, high pressure, hot mineral rich fluids or a combination of all of these.
Metamorphic Rocks
Most abundant mineral that is used as a fluxing agent in ceramics and glass applications.
Feldspar
The most common measure of density used by geologists where the ratio of weight or a substance to the weight of and equal volume of water at 4 degrees Celsius.
Specific Gravity
Metamorphic rocks that have wavy layers and bands or minerals.
Foliated
The continuous remaking of rocks.
Rock cycle
How were the types of rocks we have learned about named? (Why were they named what they are named?)
By their mode of formation
A mineral that is used for jewelry making and gemstones, and for its physical strength and to watches and clocks for its piezoelectric property.
Quartz