Ignorant Igneous
This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
tiny pieces of rock, sand, shells, etc. is called what
What is sediment?
the original rock before metamorphism
What is parent rock
When sediments go under compacting and cementing processes they become___________
What is sedimentary rocks.
Sediments that have gone through cycles of wet and dry
What are mudcracks
This is molten rock found above the earth's surface.
What is lava?
The final 2 processes that turn sediments into sedimentary rocks?
What are compaction and cementation?
two most common geologic processes for metamorphism
What are contact (thermal) and regional
When igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks go under weathering and eroding they become_________________
What is sediments?
This is the process by which unconsolidated sediment is transformed into solid sedimentary rock
What is lithification
Igneous rocks are categorized as _________ or _________, depending on where the molten rock cooled.
What are extrusive and intrusive.
What is the difference between weathering, erosion and deposition?
what is, weathering breaks rock down, erosion carries it away and deposition drops the sediment off?
the difference between foliated and non-foliated rocks
What is non-foliated do not develop a parallel alignment of mineral grains
The processes that turn metamorphic rocks into sediments
What are weathering and eroding?
small waves of sand that develop on a surface
What are ripple marks
__________ igneous rocks have larger crystals than the other kind of igneous rocks.
What is intrusive?
The two fundamentally different types of sedimentary rocks
What are detrital (clastic) and chemical
This is the progressive metamorphism of foliated rocks
What is slate - phyllite- schist-gneiss
_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
Heat and pressure
the process where mineral grains realign and recrystallize perpendicular to stress
What is foliation
This type of igneous rock texture is due to gas bubbles getting trapped when the lava cools
What is vesticular
the term used to describe sets of sedimentary rocks that blend from one into another
What is facies
the parent rock of marble
What is limestone
When metamorphic and igneous rocks go under melting they turn into__________
What is magma?
the large crystal texture of igneous rocks is referred to as
What are phenocrysts