Rocks Flashcards

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Igneous

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Made from magma cooling
Crystallised
Basalt is extrusive (cools on the surface) small crystals as it cools quick
Granite is intrusive (cools underground) big crystals as it cools slowly

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Sedimentary

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Weathered igneous rock is transported by rivers to the sea and over long periods of time is built up in layers
Compaction
Fossils are found inside then
Chalk 
Limestone
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Metamorphic

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Formed by heat and pressure of sedimentary rock

Marble

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What happens at oceanic and continental plate boundary

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Oceanic is thinner than the continental crust, but it is denser (heavier), so it subducts under it
Oceanic is a lot younger

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The subduction and melting of sedimentary rock and metamorphic rock does what

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Turns it all back into magma (igneous) rock and the process starts again

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How is a Cuesta and chalk escarpment formed

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Under the sea, earthquakes cause it the to rise above sea level, earthquake forces the clay and chalk to move to a 45 degree angle, the clay is then eroded quicker then the chalk leaving dips in the landscape. Steep slip is a scarp slope and shallow slope is a dip slope.

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