Science Vocab
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- Compaction
- The process in which sediment is squeezed and in which the size of the pore space between sediment grains is reduced by weight and pressure of overlying layers
- Metamorphism
- The process in which one type of rock changes into Metatmorphic rock
- Intrusive igneouse rock
- Magma that cools deep inside Earths crust
- Chemical Sedimentary rock
- Rock that forms from minerals that were once dissolved
- Rock Cycle
- Series of rock changes
- Nonfoliated
- Rocks that do not have bands or aligned minerals
- Clastic Sedimentary Rock
- Rock formed from deposits
- Igneouse Rock
- What magma forms when it cools
- Organic Sedimentary Rock
- Rock that forms from remains of living things
- Cementation
- The process in which sediments are glued together by minerals that are deposited by water
- Felsic
- Magma that contains lots of silica
- Mafic
- Magma that contains a little silica
- Foliation
- The metamorphic rock texture in which minerals grains are arranged in planes or bands
- Extrusive igneouse rock
- Lava that cools at Earths surface
- Contact Metamorphism
- A change in texture, structure or chemical composition due to contact with magma
- Bowens Reaction series
- The simplified pattern that illustrates the order in which minerls crystallize from cooling magma
- Regional Metamorphism
- A change in texture, structure or chemical composition due to changes over a large area