Sedimentary
The process when large sediments are glued together.
What is cementation?
The two most commonly used Metamorphic rocks.
What are Marble and Quartzite?
Name of a common glassy black (igneous) rock.
What is Obsidian?
The two factors necessary for metamorphic rocks
What are Heat and Pressure
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The name of [NaCl] when found in rock form.
What is rock salt?
The repetitive layering in metamorphic rocks
what is foliated or foliation.
What Makes up Igneous rocks texture?
What is grain size.
The two main types of erosion
What are Chemical and Physical
The discoverer of the rock cycle.
Who is James Hutton [1726-1797]
The Rock that is the result of compaction and variably decayed plant matter.
What is Coal?
The most common form of metamorphism.
What is Regional?
The silicate liquid that flows out at the Earth's surface or seabed.
What is Lava?
The diagram that shows the changes in rocks
what is the rock cycle
Cenozoic, Mesozoic, and Paleozoic are Eras in
What is the Geologic Time Scale
The strip of sand and gravel extending from the low- to high-tide line.
What is Beach?
The product of limestone and metamorphism.
What is Marble?
The intrusive igneous rocks form from the crystallization and consolidation of...
What is Magma?
The ~six~ rock cycle processes.
What is -Wheathering&Erosion--Transportation--Deposition--Compation&Cementation--Metamorphism--Rock Melting.
The product of kaolinite and quartz @ 300*C
or
Al4Si4O10(OH)8 + 4SiO2-->
What is pyrophyllite and water ( 2Al2Si4O10(OH)2 + 2H2O )
The empty space between individual grains in sedimentary rocks.
What are pores?
The response of mineral assemblages to decreasing temperature and pressure.
What is Retrograde Metamorphism?
The intrusive compositional equivalent of andesite.
What is Diorite?
The one true time associated fact.
What is "The rock cycle never ends"
the Latin word of Igneous
What is "ignis"