Igneous Rocks
Rocks are created, destroyed, and remade into different rocks. What describes this process?
what is the Rock Cycle?
The 2 main types of sedimentary rocks
What are clastic and chemical?
What are the main things that create metamorphic rocks?
What are pressure and heat?
Marble, overlying slate, overlying quartzite represents what type of event prior to metamorphism?
What is a transgressive or ocean rise sequence?
What tectonic environment normal faults occur in?
What are extensional environments?
Igneous rocks are identified by 3 different characteristics. What are they?
What are crystal texture, minerals, and chemical composition?
3 parts of a fluvial system
what are the collecting system, transporting system, and dispersing system?
What is "parent material"?
If rocks laid down in a regressive sequence are metamorphosed, what sequence of rocks would be found if erosion did not remove them?
What is sandstone over shale over limestone?
Compression or shortening created in convergent tectonics create what types of faults?
What are thrust faults?
A rock with a crystal texture that is entirely large crystals visible to the naked eye
What is phaneritic?
What does loss of confinement mean?
What is the protolith for a quartzite?
What is sandstone?
What 2 things can create an unconformity?
What are erosion or a period of non-deposition?
These types of faults occur along short parts of seafloor spreading centers
What are transform faults?
An igneous rock that has crystals too tiny to see with the naked eye
What is aphanitic texture?
Where does loss of channel confinement occur?
What are alluvial fans and deltas?
What is the protolith for slate?
What is shale?
What is a subduction zone?
In a normal fault, the hanging wall moves in what direction relative to the foot wall?
What is down?
What 2 factors increase the explosiveness of volcanoes?
What are silica content and trapped gases?
What processes create chemical sedimentary rocks?
What are chemical reactions?
What is the protolith for marble?
What is limestone?
In a layer of rocks, which rocks are the oldest? What principle describes this?
What are the ones on the bottom? What is the Principle of Superposition?
Tilted beds created by compression and overlain by non-tilted beds represents what type of unconformity?
What is an angular unconformity?