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Rocks and Minerals Study Guide Describe the cooling rate for fine grained ______________________ Course grained ___________________ Porphrytic _____________________ igneous rocks What is the difference between intrusive and extrusive igneous rock? Define: CementationSedimentationCompactionWhat is the difference between weathering and erosion? What is chalk formed from? How do geologists describe a rocks texture? Metamorphic rocks are formed from ____________ and _______________. _______________ rocks, ______________ rocks and ______________ rocks can become metamorphic rock. What does foliated mean? What are vesicles, and what type of rock has them? Explain how granite would be turned to sanstone. What causes the uplift, folding and faulting that moves rocks through the rock cycle? What is the texture of slate? What two terms are used to describe the texture of metamorphic rocks? Erosion is an important process in the formation of _______________ rocks. In the rock cycle what happens ot magma and lava once they cool and harden? Does sedimentary rock become metamorphic before it becomes magma? Compare and contrast the FORMATION of course grained and fine grained igneous rock.
