Rocks and Minerals Flashcards by branda tran | Brainscape

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Mineral

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Any naturally occurring, inorganic, solid

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Fracture

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Breaking into random pieces, no pattern

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Cleavage

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Breaking into a clear pattern, flat sides

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Silicon-oxygen tetrahedron (SiO4)

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Atoms are bonded like a pyramid

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Clastic

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Pieces, fragments

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Bioclastic

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Pieces/fragments from life

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Fossil

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Any evidence of past life

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Magma

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Liquid rock underground

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Lava

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Liquid rock above ground

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Intrusive

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Igneous rock that stays inside the earth

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Extrusive

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Igneous rock that exits the earth

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Vesicular

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Bubble holes - gas pockets

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Contact Metamorphism

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Only what gets touched gets changed

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Regional metamorphism

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An entire area changes

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Foliation

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Wavy layers

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Rock Cycle

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Any rock can become any other rock