Geology Powerpoint 6 Quiz- Metamorphic Rocks

What does Meta and Morph mean?

Is gneiss more coarse, or less coarse than shist?

Will gneiss break along foliation planes?

How does migmatite melt?

What is a mixture of igneous and metamorphic rock? (granite + gneiss)

True or false, gneiss is a transitional rock?

Non-foliated metamorphic rocks are composed of what kind of minerals?

What are two examples of granular minerals?

What texture is created when calcite or quartz(granular minerals) are subjected to stress?

What does equigranular texture mean?

On foliated minerals, are there amphiboles and mica present to define it?

What are two examples of non-foliated metamorphic rocks?

What is the parent rock for marble and what is its formula?

What is the parent rock for quartzite?

What is non-foliated recrystallized sandstone?

What is the formula for quartz?

In quartzite, some _____ _____ survive.

True or false non-foliated rocks can have both contact and regional metamorphism?

What have metamorphic rocks been mineralogically or texturally changed by?

Rocks are metamorphosed, I.e. Changed mineralogically or texturally by what commonly?

What do metamorphic rocks provide a window into?

True or false, in Igneous an sedimentary processes, we can see them forming naturally?

Can we see Metamorphic rocks forming naturally?

Metamorphism occurs at pressures and temperatures much _____ than those on the earth's surface?

Metamorphic rocks occur below temperatures and pressure conditions that cause melting.

Where do metamorphic rocks form?

Metamorphic rocks remain in what state?

What do metamorphic changes depend on?

What is a protolith?

How fast are Metamorphic processes and give an example.

Around what temperature are metamorphic rocks not naturally found?

What are the two categories of metamorphic rocks?

What are the six metamorphic foliated rocks?

What three things increase as you go from low grade rock to high grade?

What is the protolith for slate?

What rocks break smoothly along foliation planes for foliated metamorphic rocks?

Shale are ____ and ___ minerals that are aligned and ___

Ture or false- slate is very coarse grained

What grows on phyllite due to stress and in what direction?

What do micas do to the surface of phyllite rocks?

True or false phyllite is very fine grained

What direction do micas grow on shicts?

True or false- schists are not coarser than phllyite and will not break along cleavage planes?

Schists are often f....?

What metamorphic minerals are segregated into light and dark bands?

What are the light bands made on gneiss?

What are the dark bands in gneiss made of?

True or false, gneiss can't be tightly folded?

What is non-foliated recrystallized limestone known as?

What results in secondary minerals, streaks and bands in marble?

How are impurities are marble valuable to people?

What are the sources of causing heat in metamorphic processes?

What does magma degrees range around?

What does burial degrees range around in degrees celsius per km.

What are the two effects of heat in metamorphism?

What are the two different types of pressures?

What reduced space and drives reactions to denser forms of minerals?

What is the source of confining pressure?

Differential stress is also called directed pressure and results in ultimately what?

What is the source of differential stress?

Differential stress cause _____ of _____ or ___ minerals and growth of new minerals in the same direction

What does folia =?

What are the three sources of fluids from metamorphism?

Heat and pressure change the ____ environment while fluids change the ____.

Fluids remove and adds ___ and leads to ______ changes.

Re fluids in metamorphism ____ rock goes towards ___ rock.

When chemical change in a rock results from interaction with fluids what is it called?

Water released in what zones alter rocks when it passes through it in fluid metamorphic processes?

What type of metamorphism is cause by heat from an igneous intrusion or lava flow?

What area is right next to an igneous rock intrusion?

What type of metamorphism results from impact of meteorites

Contact metamorphism includes ____ while shock includes ___ and ___.

What effects result from shock metamorphism?

What are some locations for evidence of impact craters?

What type of metamorphism includes pressures, temperatures and fluids?

What kind of metamorphism is usually associated with plate collisions?

What occurs from regional metamorphism?

In regional metamorphism are rock intensely foliated?

What type of metamorphism is caused by frictional pressure along a fault?