Sedimentary Special Features
What is the remains, impressions, or any other evidence of a plant or animal preserved in rock?
What are fossils
What do these rocks form from?
What is Magma or Lava
What does this rock form from?
What is Heat and Pressure
What is the original rock?
What is the parent rock
What rock comes before sedimentary rocks?
What are igneous rocks
What are the sand patterns formed by the action of winds, streams, waves, or currents called?
What are ripple marks
Lava is...
What is molten rock above the earths surface
Where an ocean plate is sinking beneath a continental plate?
What is the Subduction Zone
What are the three main types of rocks?
What are igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary
What rock comes before igneous rocks?
What are metamorphic rocks
What are round, solid, masses of calcium carbonate found in layers of shale?
What are concretions
Magma is...
What is molten rock beneath the earths surface
What is one area of classification for this rock?
What is Foliated
What can rocks help us find?
What are new mineral resources
What step in the cycle comes before sedimentary rock?
What are sediments
What is it called when wet clay dries and contracts?
What are mud cracks
Faster cooling aboveground equals...
What is Smaller Crystals = Smooth Texture
What is another area of classification for this rock?
What is Non-Foliated
What is 75%
What arrow goes from metamorphic to magma and lava?
What is melting
What is hard lumps of fine grained silica in limestone and chalk?
Ex. Flint
what are nodules
Slower cooling underground equals...
What is Larger Crystals = Coarse Texture
What is a location where there is enough heat and pressure to change already existing rocks into metamorphic rock?
What is Close to Volcanoes
What are rocks?
What is mixtures of minerals, glass, or organic materials
What arrow goes from sediment to sedimentary rock?
What is compaction and cementation