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The texture of these rocks are like a cookie with different nut chunks. name the texture |
What is coarse grained
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The texture of this rock is like chocolate chip as it features two different textures. name the texture |
What is poryphritic |
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This texture of rock has holes inside of it |
What is vesicular texture
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Igneous compositions are mainly ____________
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Sillicate Minerals |
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Dark Silicates have what going for them
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rich in iron and magnesium |
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Another name for dark silicates
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mafic
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Light Sillicates have this going for them
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they have greater amounts of potassium, sodium, and calcium
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Another name for light sillicates
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what is felsic
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A term, means rock mixture
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what is andesitic |
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This igneous composition has higher FE and MG than mafic |
What is ultramafic |
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a term - the process in which sediments compact under pressure, expel connate fluids, and gradually become solid rock |
lithificication |
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Sedimentary rocks are produced through ____________ |
lithificication |
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What is the lithificaiton process |
compaction then cementaition |
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These sedementary rocks are solid particles classfied by particle size |
detrital rocks |
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Name three common detrital rocks |
What is shale what is sandstone what is conglomerate |
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these two detrital sedimentary rocks are coarse grained and are differed from their rounded or angled particles |
conglomerate ; breccia |
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these two detrital sedimentary rocks are medium grained with sand particles |
sandstone, arkose |
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this detrital sedimentary rocks is fine grained with silt particles |
siltstone |
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this detrital sedimentary rocks is very fine grained with clay particles |
what is shale or mudstone |
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a type of rock, Derived from material that was once in solution, which precipitated to form sediment |
what is chemical rocks |
