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Metamorphic Rock Classification - faculty at Chemeketa  Foliation may also look like alternating bands of light and dark minerals. In contrast, a nonfoliated rock has interlocking grains with no specific pattern. Foliated rocks (Table 1) ... Rock Name. SLATE ... Minerals not visible with the naked eye or with a hand lens, rock shows slaty cleavage, is usually dark-colored. A product of...
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previous game - J! Archive  2004 College Championship semifinal game 2. ... This agreeable-sounding metamorphic rock has alternating bands of dark- & light-colored minerals...
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GG101 Metamorphic Rocks  Metamorphic rocks are formed from pre- existing rocks as atoms arrange ... Metamorphic rocks are complicated because you have only a few parent rock types .... some of the most bazaar looking and strikingly beautiful of all crustal rocks, but to ..... dark and light colored bands, so here we see the dark minerals beginning to...
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Rock Types - Sandatlas  List of all Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic Rock Types with Pictures and Links to ... Some anorthosites display very beautiful display of colors known as ... Aplites may have a variable composition from granite to gabbro, but the term aplite is ... Basalt is a very common dark-colored volcanic rock composed of calcic...
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Rock Key  Descriptions of some of the minerals, as they look in rocks, follow: Quartz: ... Hornblende is usually found in dark colored metamorphic rocks; sometimes in igneous rocks. .... The rock has crystals, layers that look like ribbons or bands of minerals ... The rock is mostly light to medium gray, has crystal grains, and is not layered.
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Geology Chapter 4 Flashcards | Quizlet  rich in iron and/or magnesium and comparatively low in silica. ... igneous rocks composed almost entirely of light-colored silicates- quartz and potassium feldspar. ... fine-grained mafic igneous rock containing substantial amounts of dark colored .... and composed primarily of pyroxene and calcium-rich plagioclase feldspar.
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Polished Stone Identification - Pictures of Tumbled Rocks  Chrysoprase is a pale green to bright green chalcedony that obtains its green .... and carvings is an opaque, massive garnet that often has an attractive green color. .... banded tumbled stones with subtle shades of gray, brown, tan and green.
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Minerals, Rocks & Rock Forming Processes  These 9 minerals are all silicates, and are also called the rock forming minerals. ... black) to greenish color, and the last one (Ca-Plagioclase) is light to transparent. ... Geologists distinguish three main groups of rocks (with of course numerous .... because about 75% of the earth's exposed land surface consist of sediments...
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Quartz - YodelOut!  (Rock-Crystal, Amethyst, Citrine, Cairngorm, Cat's Eye, Tiger's-Eye). ALTHOUGH the commonest and, in its natural form, the most easily ... transparent stones that are, when small, known in many localities as diamonds. .... A silicified crocidolite, in which the blue colour is retained, comes also from Salzburg, and is known as...
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Garnet: The gemstone Garnet information and pictures  Garnet is not a single mineral, but describes a group of several closely related ... Color, Red, Green, Yellow, Orange, Brown, Pink, Purple, Gray, Black .... Gadolinium Gallium Garnet (GGG), Gd3Ga2(GaO4)3 is another synthetic Garnet form.
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The Quartz Page: Flint and Chert  Feb 16, 2012 ... As a general rule, one should primarily categorize rocks according to ... Flint does not have a specific color, but is often dark gray with shades of brown, ... Flint may show color banding, but this is not a concentric banding as seen in agate. ... Although it has a powder-like consistence and can sometimes be...
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metamorphic rocks - Math/Science Nucleus  types of rocks can change into another type of rock. Although ... metamorphism uses heat and pressure to change rocks. There is no net gain ... metamorphism causes the minerals to line up, giving ... metamorphic rocks form at or near plate ... However, gneiss would be common in regional .... sheen due to mica and chlorite.
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Colored Gemstone Pictures: Blue, Red, Green, Orange, Pink  A beautiful blue and green gem material that is a combination of the copper minerals, .... It occurs in yellow, brown, and bluish crystals - but bright red specimens are ... Often an opaque green stone, its nickname is "Transvaal jade" because it ... It is a mixture of grossular and andradite that is occasionally seen in jewelry.
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Rock classification - Seafriends  Simple properties of rocks for field-testing. ... If a mineral breaks in such a way that it leaves smooth, shiny surfaces, then it is said to have cleavage, and ... The more perfect cleavage is, the thinner the sheets are that can be split off. ... Streak: the colour of a powdered mineral on a white underlay, like pyrite crystals having...
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The types of rock: igneous, metarmorphic and sedimentary  Jan 12, 2015 ... They can form both underground and at the surface. ... That's why you see rocks such as granite with big crystals  because the magma had time to cool off. ... However, if the magma erupts or is cooled rapidly, then you get what is called a volcanic rock  not really igneous, but also originating from lava.
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Earth and Space Final - Ses4u with Johnstone at Sudbury ...  Jan 5, 2015 ... Due to its luster German miners gave this pleasant rock its name which mean spark. geniss. the streak of fire from the night sky came from a...
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Malachite: The green mineral Malachite information and pictures  Malachite is a very popular mineral with its intense green color and beautiful banded masses. ... Composition, Basic copper carbonate. Color ... When found in large pieces, the banded variety of Malachite makes a precious ornamental stone.
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Garnets - International Colored Gemstone  Well, first of all there is its good hardness of 7 to 7.5 on the Mohs scale. ... A further plus is their high refractive index, the cause of the garnet's great brilliance. ... the red garnet, which often puts one in mind of the seeds of a ripe pomegranate. ... And even today, fantasy names like Arizona ruby, Arizona spinel, Montana ruby...
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Slate: Metamorphic Rock - Pictures, Definition & More - Geology.com  It is popular for a wide variety of uses such as roofing, flooring, and flagging ... Slate is composed mainly of clay minerals or micas, depending upon the ... Most slates are gray in color and range in a continuum of shades from light to dark gray. ... Because it is a good electrical insulator, it was also used for early electric...
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Paraiba Tourmaline - International Colored Gemstone  It was not discovered until very recently, that is to say in the 1980s. ... a handful of the finest tourmaline crystals were brought up into the daylight from one of the ... was lacking - that is, until the discovery of that precious deposit in Paraiba. ... mixture of copper and manganese can also result in pale grey to violet-blue tones.
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Metamorphic rock - Wikipedia  Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock types, in a process called ... Some examples of metamorphic rocks are gneiss, slate, marble, schist, and ... This results in a banded, or foliated rock, with the bands showing the colors of ... When a rock is contact altered by an igneous intrusion it very frequently...