Minerals
A mineral characteristic that shines like metal.
What is metallic luster?
Characterized by large crystals
What is plutonic? OR What is intrusive? OR What is phaneritic?
This sedimentary rock is made of clay-sized particles
What is shale?
Its parent rock is granite
What is gneiss?
This rock formed from rock fragments or other cemented fragments.
What is sedimentary rock?
This description means that a mineral breaks in no real pattern
What is fracture?
Characterized by darker color and low silica content
What is mafic? OR What is basaltic?
The 2 conditions for fossil development
What is rapid burial and hard parts?
A type of rock characterized by banding patterns
What is foliated?
A characteristic of a mineral.
What is naturally occurring? OR What is specific chemical composition? OR What is crystalline structure? OR What is inorganic? OR What is solid?
The true color of a mineral when pulverized
What is streak?
Hawaii and Olympus Mons are examples of these volcanoes, which are wide and large.
What is shield volcano?
A sedimentary rock type that is made of smaller rocks
What is heat and/or pressure?
The type of rock that might form at a convergent continental-continental plate boundary
What is metamorphic rock?
Iron nail, finger nail, glass plate, penny
What is scratch test?
This rock is felsic and intrusive.
What is Granite or Pegmatite?
A sedimentary rock that can be bioclastic or chemical depending on how it formed.
What is limestone?
Its parent rock is limestone
What is marble?
A mineral or rock that tends to dissolve in acid
What is calcite or limestone?
Mineral group for SiO2
What is silicates?
A layer of the earth is plastic with large convection currents.
What is the mantle?
A type of fossil is in resin or amber
What is preserved remains?
The type of metamorphic rock that quartzite is.
What is non-foliated?
Then mineral group for FeS2.
What is Sulfides?