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Classification Of Rocks And Its Exogenic Process Flashcards

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Is a natural substance composed of solid crystals of different minerals that have been fused together into a solid lump.

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Rock

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Is an aggregate of mineral grains.

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Rock

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Contain only one mineral species.

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Monomineralic

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Contain two or more minerals

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Polymineralic

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Study of rocks

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Petrology

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classifications of rocks

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Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic

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Rocks that were solidified from molten state

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Igneous rocks

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Chief elements in igneous rocks

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Oxygen, silicon, sodium, aluminum, iron, magnesium, calcium, potassium

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Classifications of igneous rocks

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Intrusive, extrusive

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Crystallized before magma reach the earth’s surface

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Intrusive igneous rocks

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From layers of lava that were solidified

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Extrusive igneous rocks

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Doesn’t include any fossil deposits

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Igneous rocks

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Characteristics of igneous rocks

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Doesn’t include any fossil deposits, include more than one mineral deposit, glassy or coarse, don’t react with acids, patches with different size.

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Characteristics of sedimentary rocks

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Deposited at the earth’s surface by wind, water, glacier ice, or biochemical processes, typically deposited in STRATA.

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Rocks that have been transformed by pressure, heat, or the intrusion of fluids

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Metamorphic rocks

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A process of mineral assemblage and texture variation

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Metamorphism

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Metamorphism can be?

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Regional, contact, dynamic, metasomatic

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Results in the formation of rocks that are strongly foliated.

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Regional metamorphism

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Occurs around intrusive igneous rocks.

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Contact metamorphism

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Pressure is the only cause of rock alteration

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Dynamic metamorphism

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When gases and liquids permeate into bedrock

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Metasomatic

22
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Makes the surface wear away

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Exogenic processes

23
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Responsible for degradation and sculpting the earth’s surface

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Exogenic processes

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