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rocks vocablary
rocks vocaluray
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| basalt | a dark dene igneous rock with a fine texture found in oceanic crust |
| cementaion | the prose's in which minerals precipitate into porespaces between sediments grains and bind sediments together to form a rock |
| compaction | the prose's by which sediments are pressed together under their own weight |
| deformation | when rocks change shape due to stress |
| depostion | process by which sediments is laid down in new locations |
| erosion | proscess by whcich rock and sand and soil are broken down and carried away I.e weathering glacaing |
| granite | a usually light collerd rock that if found in countinal crust |
| igneous rcok | a type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface |
| kimetone | a sedimentary rock consitinthg mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animails |
| mantel | the layer of hot solid material between Earth's crust and core |
| marble | metaphoric rock that was once limestone |
| metaphoric rock | metamorphic rock that has been changed by heat and pressure |
| metamorphism | the processes by which rocks are changed in composition texture or structure by extrem heat and pressure |
| mineral | a naturally occurring solid that can form byingorgance processes and has a crystal structure and a definite chemical compostion |
| quartzite | a metamorphic rock formed from sandstone |
| sandstone | a sedimentary rock made out of sand held together by a natural cement |
| rock cycle | a series of processes on the surface and inside earth that slowly changes rock from one kind to anthore |
| sediment | small solid pieces of material that come from rocks or living things |
| sedimentarry rock | a type of rock that forms when particals from other rocks or the remains of plants and animals are pressed and ceintented together |
| shale | a rock with a fine grain formed form clay mud or slit |
| slate | a type of metaphophic rock that was once shale rock formed by heat and pressure |
| weathering | the breaking down of rocks and other materials on the Earth's surfaces |
| uplift | the rising of religions of the Earth's crust to higher elevlations |
| sedimentaion | the building up of layers of small particles like sand or mud |
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