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rock vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| basalt | A dark,dense, ingenious rock with a fine texture, found in oceanic crust |
| cementation | the process in which minerals precipitate into pore spaces between sediment grains and bind sediments together to form rock |
| compaction | the process by which sediments are pressed together under their own weigth |
| deformation | when rocks change shape due to stress |
| depsition | process by which sediment is laid down in new location |
| erosion | process by which rock,sand and soil are broken down and carried away |
| granite | a usually light colored ingenious rock that is found in contiental crust |
| igneous rock | a type of rock that forms the form of the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface |
| limestone | a sedimentary rock consisting manly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals |
| mantle | the layer of hot solid material between Earth's crust a and core |
| marbel | metamorphic rock that was ones limestone |
| metamorphic rock | rock that has been changed by heat and presser |
| metamorphism | the process by which rocks are changed in composition texture or structure by extreme heat and the presser |
| minaral | a natreul occuring solid that can form by inorinic process |
| quartzite | a metamorphic rock formed from sand stone |
| sandstone | a sedimentary rock made of sand |
| rock cycle | a series of process on the surface and in side earth that slowlychanges |
| sediment | small solid peciecs of matiral |
| sedimentary rock | a type of rock that formed when particals from there rocks |
| shale | a rock with a fine grain formed from clay mud or slit |
| slate | a type of metamorphic rock that once shale rock formed by heatans |
| weathering | the braecking down of rocks and other minerals on the Earth's surface |
| uplift | the rising of regions of the earth crust to highter elevation |
| sedimentation | the building up the layers of small particals like sand or mud |