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Rocks+Minerals

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PropertiesRock/Mineral
Mineral Black-Green,pale White, Cleavage 2 at 60 Amphibole
Mineral Soft, Brown-Black, Perfect Cleavage Biotite
Mineral Soft,Clear White-Coloured opaque Calcite
Mineral Red, dodecahedral (soccer ball shape) Garnet
Mineral Very Very soft, white-yellow Gypsum
Mineral Very soft, silver-gold Muscovite
Mineral Green, glassy+no cleavage Olivine
Mineral White-Pink, cleavage 2 at 90 Orthoclase
Mineral Grey Plagioclase
Mineral Black-Dark Green, prismatic Pyroxene
Mineral Hard, white clear - coloured glassy Quartz
Mineral Blue Kyanite
Mineral Green, very soft w/ perfect cleavage Chlorite
Mineral Soft, Green, No cleavage Serpentine
Mineral Very hard white w/ perfect cleavage Sillimanite
Mineral Red-Brown, hard+prismatic Staurolite
Black, Glassy Obsidian
Light, Grey, Porous Pumice
All Olivine Dunite
Many clasts with possible bedding inside an igneous rock. Tuff
1cm+ crystals of Orthoclase, Quartz+Muscovite Pegmatite
Large, but all smooth clasts. Conglomerate
Really mixed inconsistent clasts Tillite
Mostly Angular clasts Breccia
Sandstone w/ clay Greywacke
Many crinoid fossils, dark grey-white, soft Crinoidal Limestone
Dark grey-white, soft Limestone
Dark grey-white, soft, many circles Oolitic Limestone
Really Insanely Light Rock Diatomite
Perfect cleavage, hard/mudstone like Chert
Clay and Silt Shale
Very thick Distinct Bands of white and dark folded layers. Migmatite
Thin-ish distinct layers of lighter/darker folded layers. Gneiss
Visible metamorphic crystals Schist
Sparky metamorphic Phyllite
Foliated Cleavage Slate
All Serpentine Serpentinite
All Amphibole Amphibolite
All Quartz Quartzite
Garnet+Pyroxene Eclogite
Soft, but clear/quartzlike Marble
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