A type of Igneous Rock formed inside the earth
What is intrusive
A word derived from the Latin term for "comes from fire"
What is Igneous
A type of rock that is a combination of many others, deposited through weather and erosion.
What is sedimentary rocks.
The word for "going through transportation."
What is Metamorphic
An extrusive, granitic Igneous Rock.
What is Obsidian
A parallel, flattened texture to Metamorphic rocks
What is Folliated
The igneous texture with smaller grains.
What is Aphaneritic
A type of sedimentary rock made up of other rocks.
What is detrital
The two factors of metamorphism.
What are temperature and pressure
A detrital Sedimentary Rock with large chunks of other rocks and varied colors.
What is Conglomerate
The three types of sedimentary rocks.
What are Detrital, Chemical, and Organic
The way Igneous rocks form
What is Crystallization
The feature of having layers found in most sedimentary rocks
What is stratification
The original rocks before Metamorphism
What are parent rocks
A foliated, Metamorphic Rock, with a parent rock of Granite
What is Gneiss
An attribute of Igneous Rocks, full of air holes
What is Vesticular
The texture Intrusive Igneous rocks have
What is Phaneritic
The filling of holes in Sedimentary Rocks
What is cementation
The lowest metamorphic texture grade, above Sedimentary Rock
What is Slate
A Biochemical Sedimentary Rock that comes from Fossils.
What is Fossiliferous Limestone
The three forms of Igneous composition.
What are Mafic, Felsic, and Andesitic.
Signs of Mafic composition.
What is high density, dark in color, high in Iron and Magnesium
The most common example of Knarst Topography
What are caves
The texture of Marble and Quartzite
What is Non-Foliated
A foliated Metamorphic Rock, with a Parent Rock of Shale
What is Slate