Mineral Groups
The composition of calcite.
What is CaCO3?
Limestone and bituminous coal have this unique texture.
What is bioclastic?
Granite most likely cooled here.
What is beneath the earths surface?
This rock bubbles when hydrochloric acid is placed on it's surface.
What is marble?
Banding and alignment are created by these two processes
What is heating and pressure?
This is the name of the atomic structure found in silicate minerals.
What is a tetrahedron?
This rock can have two different origins.
What is limestone?
As the density of igneous rock increases its composition becomes more this.
What is mafic?
The crystals of foliated metamorphic rocks may have formed these.
What are layers or bands?
This mineral is found in phyllite, sandstone, and granite.
What is quartz?
This mineral is used as plaster of paris or drywall.
What is gypsum?
Sandstone, breccia, and shale have this texture.
What is clastic?
This mineral is only found in felsic rocks.
What is potassium feldspar?
This rock is formed only by regional metamorphism.
What is slate, phyllite, schist, gneiss, or anthracite coal?
Of sandstone, schist, gabbro, and rhyolite, this rock was subjected to intense heat and pressure but did not solidify from magma.
What is schist?
This is one of three visible differences between potassium feldspar and plagioclase feldspar.
What is color, cleavage direction, or striations visible in plagioclase feldspar?
These can only be found in sedimentary rocks.
What are fossils?
What is slowly?
This is what a metamorphic rock used to be.
What is the parent material?
The process that forms igneous rock.
This determines crystal shape and type of cleavage of a mineral
What is the internal arrangement of atoms?
While other rocks are made of crystals, clastic sedimentary rocks are made of these.
What are particles, pieces, or sediments.
This mineral is found only in mafic rocks.
What is olivine?
One of four locations on ESRT page 3 that would most likely have bedrock that contains garnet.
What is Old Forge, Mt. Marcy, Kingston, or New York City?
All three of these rocks can form as evaporites.
What are rock salt, rock gypsum, and dolostone?