Igneous
The cooling & solidification of molten material
What is Crystallization
Temperature and/or pressure
What is how metamorphic rocks are formed?
loose materials such as rock fragments, mineral grains, & bits of shells that have been moved by wind, water, ice, or gravity.
What is Sediment?
Physical Properties of Minerals
What is Color/Streak Luster Hardness Cleavage/Fracture Specific gravity?
Irregular breaks along curved surfaces WITHOUT definite shape
What is Fracture?
Molten rock underneath the earth surface
What is magma
Another word for change
What is META?
Types of sedimentary rocks
What is Detrital Chemical Organic?
Color
What is Not a reliable way to differentiate between minerals?
A Mineral that is magnetic
What is Magnitite?
Molten rock at earths surface
What is Lava?
mineral grains are flattened and line up in parallel layers
What is foliated?
Shale silt stone sandstone and conglomerate
What is Detrital (Clastic) Rocks?
The true color of the mineral
What is Streak?
Original rocks before metamorphism
What is Parent Rocks?
Vesicular Glassy Aphanitic Phaneritic
What is igneous rock texture
mineral grains grow and rearrange, but don’t form bands mineral grains grow and rearrange, but don’t form bands
What is Nonfoliated?
Sedimentary Rock Features
What is Stratification Fossils Ripple Marks Geodes?
Vitreous, Pearly, Greasy/oily, Dull, and Earthy
What is types of Non metallic Luster
An Alternative meaning of morph
What is Form?
igneous rocks formed inside the Earth VS igneous rocks that form at the surface
Intrusive vs extrusive
Examples of Metamorphic rocks
What is Gneiss Schist Slate Marble Quartzite?
Weather, eroding rocks, and compounding
what is lithification?
Hardness of a penny on mohs hardness scale
What is 3 on the mohs hardness scale
Memorial in D.C. made with marble that is protected because of weathering
What is the Lincoln Memorial?