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rocks vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| besalt | a dork dense igneous rock with a texture found in oceanic crust |
| cementation | the process in which minerals precipitete into pore spaces between sediment grains and diments together to form rock |
| compection | the process by which sediments are pressed together under their own weight |
| deformation | when rocks change shape due to stress |
| dopesition | pro cess by which sediment is laid down in new locations |
| erosion | processes by which rock and soil are broken and carried away (i.e.weathering glation) |
| granite | a usully light colored igneous rock that is found in continental crust |
| lgneneus rock | a type of rock that from the cooling of molten rock at or below the suface |
| limestone | a sedimentary rock |