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- Organic sedimentary rock
- Sedimentary rock that forms from the remains of plants or animals.
- intrusive igneauos rock
- rock formed from the cooling and solidification of magma beneath earths surface
- Metamorphism
- The process in which one type of rock changes into metamorphic rock because of chemical processes or changes in temperature and pressure.
- Igneous Rock
- Rock that forms when magma cools and solidifies.
- Intrusive igneous rock
- Rock formed from the cooling and solidification of magma beneath Earth's surface.
- Regional metamorphism
- A change in the texture structure or chemical composition of a rock due to changes in tem. And pressure over a large area generally as a result of tectonic forces
- Compaction
- The process in which the volume and porosity of a sediment of a sediment is decreased by the weight of overlying sediments as a result of burial beneath other sediments.
- Cementation
- The process in which minerals precipitate into pore spaces between sediment grains and bind sediments together to form rock.
- Mafic
- Describe magma or igneous rock that is rich in magnesium and iron and that is generally dark in color.
- Felsic
- Describe magma or igneous rock that id rich in feldspars and silica and that is generally light in color.
- Clastic sedimentary rock
- Sedimentary rock that forms when fragments of preexisting rocks are compacted or cemented together.
- Chemical sedimentary rock
- Sedimentary rock that forms when minerals precipitation from a solution or settle from a suspension
- Rock cycle
- The series of processes in which rocks form changes from one type to another, is destroyed and again by geological processes.
- Extrusive igneous rock
- Rock that forms from the cooling and solidification of lava at Earth's surface.
- Contact metamorphism
- A change in the texture, structure, or chemical composition of a rock due to contact with magma.
- compaction
- the process in wihich a form of sedimentary rock is formed over another form of sesdimentary rock so that they are opposite layers
- Browns Reaction series
- The simplified pattern that illustrates the order in which minerals crystallize from cooling magma according to their chemical composition and melting point.