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rocks vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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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 |