chapter 6 vocadulary
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- Bowen's reaction series
- the simplified pattern that illustrates the order in which minerals crystallize from cooling magma according to their chemical compostition and melting point
- chemical sedimentary rock
- sedimnetary rock that forms when minerals precipatate from a solution or settle from a suspension
- foliation
- the metamorphic rock texture in which mineral grains are arranged in planes or bands
- maifc
- descibes magma or igneous rock as dark colored
- contact metamorphism
- a change in the texture, structure, or chemical composition of rock due to contact with magma
- metamorphism
- the process in which one type of rock changes into metamorphic rock because of chemical processes or changes in temperature and pressure
- Rock Cycle
- the series of processes in which rock forms, changes form one type to another, is destroyed, and forms again by geological processes
- clastic sedimentary rock
- sedimentary rock that forms when fragments of preexisting rocks are cimpacted or cemented together
- igneous rock
- rock that forms when magma cools and solidfies
- extrusive igneous rock
- rock that formed at the Earth's surface
- nonflotation
- the metamorphic rock texture in which mineral grains are not arranged in planes or bonds
- compaction
- the process in which the volume and porosity of a sediment is decreased by the weight of overlying sediments as a result of burial beneath other sediments
- intrusive igneous rock
- rock that formed beneath Earth's suface
- felsic
- descibes magma or igneous rock as light colored
- origanic sedimantary rock
- sedimentay rock that forms from the remains of plants or animals
- cementation
- the process ing which minerals precipitatp into pore spaces between sediment grains and blind sediments together to form rock
- religonal metamorphism
- a change in the texture, structure, or chemical composition of rock due to changes in temperature and pressure over a large area, generally as a result of tectonic forces