Rocks Q1 PDF
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Caloocan National Science and Technology High School
Jamie Ann M. Aumentado
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This document is a set of class notes on minerals and rocks. Topics covered include lithification, rock textures and compositions (including conglomerate, breccia, sandstone, siltstone, shale, chert, flint, rock gypsum, rock salt, bituminous coal), and types of metamorphism. It also includes descriptions and uses of common metamorphic rocks.
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CALOOCAN NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL JAMIE ANN M. AUMENTADO SRM DEPARTMENT Unit 3: MINERALS and ROCKS Peridotite ...
CALOOCAN NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL JAMIE ANN M. AUMENTADO SRM DEPARTMENT Unit 3: MINERALS and ROCKS Peridotite Pumice Lithification is the subsequent process that turns sediment into rock. Conglomerate Breccia Sandstone Siltstone Shale Texture (grain size) Sediment name Rock name gravel (rounded conglomerate coarse (over fragments) 2 mm) gravel (angular breccia fragments) medium sandstone sand silt (1/16 to 2 mm) fine (1/16 to 1/256 mm) siltstone very fine clay shale (less than 1/256 mm) CompositioTexture (grain size) Rock Name n quartz chert (light color) very fine crystalline flint (dark color) dine tocoarse gypsum rock gypsum crystalline fine to coarse halite rock salt crystalline altered plant fine-grained organic bituminous coal fragments matter Rock salt Limestone Coal Breccia Conglomerate Sandstone Siltstone Chert Shale Coal Rocksalt Gypsum Fossil Limestone Coquina Oolithic Limestone Chalk Limestone Micrite Limestone Dolomite Types of Metamorphism Types of Metamorphism Types of Metamorphism Metamorphic Continuum Uses of Common Metamorphic Rocks
