Metamorphic Flashcards

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Slate

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Foliated, low grade, shale, fine grained, slaty cleavage

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Phyllite

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Foliated, low-medium, shale-slate, fine grained slight sheen micaceous

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Schist

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Foliated, medium grade, slate-shape-phyllite, medium coarse, glittery, schistosity

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Gneiss

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Foliated, gneissic banding, high grade, any of the other rocks below

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Order of Foliated

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Slate, phyllite, schist, gneiss

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Quartzite

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No Foliated, variable grade, interlocking large grains, harder than glass, quartz sandatone

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Marble

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Nonfoliated, variable, limestone, large calcite grains, react with HCl

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Amphibolite

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Nonfoliated, medium high, basalt gabbro, needle hornblende crystals, may be Foliated, dark

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Hornfels

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Nonfol, variable, variable, everything variable

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Anthracite

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Nonfol, variable, coal, microcrystalline texture glassy, tar like conchidal fracture

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