Coarse Grain
They break into sediments, then the sediments form a sedimentary rock.
Weathering breaks rock into smaller pieces.
Clastic, Chemical, and Organic
Heat and Pressure
They break into sediments, then the sediments form a sedimentary rock.
Metamorphism caused by lots of PRESSURE.
Heat and Pressure
Extrusive Igneous Rock
The minerals are in bands or layers.
Magma or lava cools and becomes hard.
The minerals that the rock is made of.
Sediments
Felsic are light colored, Mafic are dark.
Metamorphism caused by lots of HEAT.
layers of different sediments in sedimentary rock.
Intrusive igneous
Grain size
They melt into magma, then cool.
Sediments are compacted and cemented together.
Erosion and Deposition
Heat and Pressure
Intrusive Igneous Rock
Nonfolliated.
Fine Grain
How do sedimentary rocks form?
What does it take to make rocks into metamorphic rocks?
What type of rock is Ship Rock, in Arizona?
What are sedimentary rocks made of?
How do igneous rocks become sedimentary?
How do igneous rocks form?
What is a rock's composition?
Intrusive Igneous rocks usually have what texture?
Igneous rock formed from lava is called what?
What are the 3 types of sedimentary rock?
How do sediments form?
What is the texture of metamorphic rock that doesn't have bands or stripes?
What are the processes that move sediments from one place to another?
What is Contact Metamorphism?
How do igneous rocks change into metamorphic rocks?
What is strata?
How do metamorphic rocks change into igneous rock?
What is the difference between felsic rocks and mafic rocks.
Igneous rock formed from magma is called what?
Extrusive Igneous rocks usually have what texture?
What is Regional Metamorphism?
What does it mean if a metamorphic rock is Folliated?
How do sedimentary rocks change into metamorphic rocks?
How do metamorphic rocks become sedimentary?
What do we look at when classifying texture?
