The layer of earth that peridotite is associated with.
What is the mantle?
100
The alternation of light and dark strips that characterizes gneiss.
What is banding?
100
This fine-grained sedimentary rock is generally composed of very small quartz grains.
What is siltstone?
100
I form outside of earth's surface, rather than under it, which means I am?
What is extrusive
100
This metamorphic rock is composed of calcite and transformed from a protolith of limestone.
What is marble?
200
The igneous classification of Peridotite due to its low amount of silica.
What is ultramafic?
200
An example of a parent rocks that gneiss is metamorphosed from.
What is gabbro, shale, volcanic or granitic rock?
200
Siltstone is created by this process, in which loose sediment is transformed into solid rock. The two steps of this process are compaction and cementation.
What is lithification?
200
The reason my eruptions are so explosive is because my lava has high?
What is viscosity
200
During the formation of marble, calcite composing the protolith undergoes this process.
What is recrystallization?
300
The color of fresh peridotite.
What is pistachio green?
300
Three minerals commonly found in gneiss.
What is quartz, potassium feldspar, sodium feldspar?
300
Before undergoing lithification and becoming siltstone, silt might accumulate in these flat areas bordering streams.
What are floodplains?
300
I contain these minerals?
What is quartz, K-feldspar, Na-plag
300
Built between 1632 and 1654 in India, this architectural feat is made entirely out of marble.
What is the Taj Mahal?
400
Peridotite is found on land due to collisions between these.
What is tectonic plates?
400
The time period that gneiss is found in.
What is the Precambrian time period?
400
This quality/property of siltstone is described as "fine".
What is clast size?
400
My magmas result largely from?
What is partial melting of the lower oceanic or continental crust
400
This masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City is made of Carrara marble. It depicts the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Mary after the Crucifixion.
What is the Pieta?
500
A gas that peridotite reacts with causing it to form a solid carbonate (ex: limestone).
What is Carbon Dioxide?
500
Due to this grade of metamorphism, gneiss has a coarser texture and higher resistance to cleavage compared to schist.
What is high grade?
500
This canyon, considered one of the finest examples of arid-land erosion in the world, contains siltstone in its sedimentary layers.
What is the Grand Canyon?
500
My grain size classifies me as "blank" and why?
What is aphanitic/fine-grained and because I cool so quickly, my crystals have a relatively small time to form (as compared to granite, for example, which can form large crystals)
500
If the original protolith contained layers with different impurities, and shear caused the marble to flow plastically, the resulting marble has this.