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Volcanic glass |
Obsidian |
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Light porous rock |
Pumice |
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Fossils are found in what type of rock |
Sedimentary |
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Rocks formed from minerals precipitated from rocks are what type of rock |
Nonclastic |
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Step between deposition and cementation |
Compaction |
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A person who studies the origin and classification of all rocks |
Petrologist |
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Individual rock particles crystals and sometimes fossils that give a rock its texture is called what |
Grains |
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Young earth geologist think that on the third day the basement rock was created and it was what type of rock |
Igneous |
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What are large crystals that interlock called |
Pegmatite |
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Rock tied most closely to the process of sedimentation |
Sedimentary |
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Which does not belong pebbles clay sand or magma |
Magma |
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Deposits of halite penetrate vertically through rock strata is called what |
Salt domes |
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What is it called when hydrothermal fluids changed rocks that they have contacted |
Chemical metamorphism |
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Rock that seems to be changed from its original state |
Metamorphic |
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Term that describes rock with small crystals that can't be seen without a microscope |
Aphanitic |
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Rock fragments that fused together to form new rock is called what |
Clasts |
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Limestone makes what when it undergoes metamorphism |
Marble |
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Three conditions thought that helps rocks undergo metamorphism |
Heat pressure and hot chemicals |
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Rocks that look like they have bands |
Foliated |
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Old Earth geologist believe that in the rock cycle Rock will eventually turn back to what |
Magma |
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What is the correct order shale schist slate |
Shale, slate, schist |
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Sedimentary rock testifies what |
The flood |
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Rocks are usually made up of two or more mixtures true or false |
True |
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Cement and concrete are composed of igneous rock true or false |
False |
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The Old Earth view fits better with the rock cycle theory true or false |
True |
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Granite or gabbyo |
Intrusive |
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Slate or niess |
Foliated |
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Limestone or chalk |
Nonclastic |
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Conglomerate or breccai |
Clastic |
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Marble or quartzite |
Nonclastic |
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Three reasons why organisms might live under rocks |
Temperature regulation food storage and safety from predators |
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Three types of rock in an example that is used for building |
igneous granite metamorphic gravel and sedimentary limestome |