Rocks
This is a natural, solid mixture of minerals or grains.
What is a Rock?
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Materials such as lava and ash solidify and form this igneous rock.
What is Extrusive Igneous Rock?
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Clasts in the conglomerate on the left were rounded by a fast flowing river.
What is Conglomerate and Breccia?
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Any process that affects the structure or composition of a Rock.
What is Metamorphism?
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Can deposit sediments in environments.
What is Wind, Water, Ice?
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Made up rocks.
What is minerals?
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The color of minerals gives clues.
What is Rock Composition?
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After sediment is deposited these processes begin.
What is Compaction and Cementation?
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The Rock that changes during Metamorphism.
What is Parent Rock?
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Geologists call these fragments that make up a Rock?
What are Grains?
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A geologist in the field uses these tools.
What is Field Journal, Rock Hammer, and Map?
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Igneous rocks are formed in.
What is Molten Magma?
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Rock that was formed by organisms or contains the remains of organisms.
What is Biochamical Rock?
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High Pressure during Metamorphism causes this.
What is Align Perpendicular Pressure?
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The series of processes that change ine type of rock into another type or rock.
What is the Rock Cycle?
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Three major Rock types.
What is Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic Rock?
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Igneous rocks are identified.
What is Texture, Density, Color, and Mineral Composition?
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Chemical Rocks often have this.
What is an Interlocking Crystalline Texture?
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Nonfoliated rocks don't show.
What is Orietation of Minerals?
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Uplift is a tectonic process that forces these rocks onto Earth's surface.
What is Extreme Tempature, Pressure, and Melting Rocks?
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Molten Rock that erupts on Earths surface.
What is Lava?
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True or False?
Stone Mountain in Georgia is made of Igneous Rock.
True
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Another type of Biochemical Sedimentary Rock.
What is Coal?
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The Himalayas in Asia and the Appalachian Mountains exhibit structures.
What is Regional Metamorphism?
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Rocks are essential to life.
What is providing Grand Canons?
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