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Mineral and Rock Identification. What do you know about minerals? NATURALLY OCCURRING Inorganic SOLIDS Crystalline Structure.

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1 Mineral and Rock Identification

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3 What do you know about minerals? NATURALLY OCCURRING Inorganic SOLIDS Crystalline Structure

4 How do minerals form? FROM MAGMA Fast cooling magma FROM SOLUTION Slow cooling magma Saturated solution Solid comes out

5 How do you identify a mineral? COLOR red jasper iron purple amethyst ferric iron

6 LUSTER how shiny

7 STREAK color of powder HARDNESS copper penny iron nail glass plate

8 CLEAVAGE breakage in one directions

9 What are igneous rocks? sedimentary rocks? metamorphic rocks?

10 How do you classify igneous rocks? INTRUSIVE EXTRUSIVE grain size texture mineral composition

11 Click pic

12 What are sedimentary rocks?

13 What are the types and classifications of sedimentary rocks? COURSE GRAINED CLASTICS MEDIUM GRAINED CLASTICS FINE GRAINED CLASTICS

14 What are organic sedimentary rocks? contain fossils or once living

15 What are metamorphic rocks?

16 What are the types and classifications of metamorphic rocks?

17 TEXTURE nonfoliated granite What are the types and classifications of metamorphic rocks? SCHIST from MARBLE from foliated limestone


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