MINERALS
A mineral that was used for windowpanes in the Medieval Muscovy state of Russia.
What is Muscovite?
A coarse-grained felsic rock, the primary component of the continental crust.
What is granite?
A type of weathering during which material rusts.
What is oxidation?
A metamorphic rock made of calcite.
A type of boundary where oceanic plate dives into the mantle under another plate.
What is Subduction?
A mineral which has a color of salmon skin and two cleavage directions.
What is Orthoclase feldspar?
A fine-grained mafic rock found at the North Shore of Lake Superior.
What is basalt?
A sedimentary rock that reacts to acid.
What is Limestone?
A rock that forms at the highest metamorphic grade.
What is Gneiss?
A type of boundary characterized by formation of new lithosphere.
What is divergent plate boundary?
A mineral that scratches the glass and has no cleavage.
What is Quartz?
A rock that forms by slowly cooling magma deep beneath the Earth's surface.
What is an intrusive rock?
A texture of rock composed of fragments cemented together.
What is clastic texture?
A type of metamorphism associated igneous intrusions.
What is Contact Metamorphism?
A layer of the Earth on which plates are moving.
What is asthenosphere?
A dense metallic mineral with cubic cleavage.
What is Galena?
A composition of rock containing abundant orthoclase feldspar and quartz.
What is felsic?
A sedimentary rock made of clay-size minerals.
What is Shale?
A very fine-grained foliated metamorphic texture.
What is slaty cleavage?
A type of plate boundary that forms Himalaya.
What is continental collision?
Smoothly curving, clamshell-shaped surface of breakage.
What is conchoidal fracture?
What is vesicular texture?
A depositional environment characterized by poorly sorted angular sediment.
What is a glacial environment?
A metamorphic agent responsible for causing the metamorphic foliation.
What is directed stress?
A volcanic activity not associated with plate boundary.
What is a hot spot?