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1. Rocks and Minerals
   ... Rhyolite An example of a finegrained, extrusive igneous rock is rhyolite. Rhyolite is an igneous rock because it forms from volcano eruptions. ...
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2. Ways we Classify
   ... If the crystals are large, we can assume that the rock was cooled under the surface and say that it is an intrusive igneous rock. ...
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3. Volcanoes
   ... The magma then solidifies producing masses of igneous rock. ... A dike is hardened magma in a vertical crack or fissure forming a sheetlike mass of igneous rock. ...
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4. rock types
   ... metamorphic rock. Basalt is reconizable because it is a dark coloured extrusive igneous rock that is somewhat smooth. This basalt ...
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5. Land form Pattern and Processes
   ... sedimentary rock Igneous: rock forms when molten substance underneath the surface, called magma or lava cools down and crystallizes. ...
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6. appalachian
   ... Abundant igneous activity associated with the Acadian orogeny produced large amounts of dioiritic and granite igneous rock also exposed in the park.
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7. Mabimbiamp39s Story
   ... My friends and me were playing a game of Walla Walla before lunch, when a medium sized heavy weight igneous rock, which was thrown from above, came smashing ...
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8. Geological history of PA
   ... during this period. During the Jurassic era magma approached the surface and cooled as dark hard igneous rock. In PA the Mesozoic ...
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9. The Moon
   ... plagioclase. This igneous rock has twice as much calcium and aluminum as the mare basalts, but less titanium, magnesium, and iron. Rocks ...
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10. Stonehenge
    ... short tons. Twentynine of the thirtythree bluestones are ophitic dolerite, a hard, medium grained, basic igneous rock. The other ...
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11. Cucumber Falls
    ... area. I have learnt that this region of Pennsylvania has a lot of igneous metaphoric limestone rock and sandstone rock. The stream ...
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12. Earth Sci
    ... of a body in opposite directions What Determines Whether a Rock Bends or ... Igneous rocks are more brittle stronger than sedimentary rocks Basement rocks ...
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13. sedimentary rocks
    ... Metamorphism of quartzbearing igneous and sedimentary rocks typically increases the ... are the same materials that are relithified compressed into rock. ...
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14. Aluminum
    ... aluminum. Igneous rocks develop from molten rock, either volcanic lava on Earthamp39s surface or magna deep underground. Granites and ...
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15. Volcanoes
    ... the rocks that melt to form the magma magma any molten rock beneath the ... None of the common minerals in magmatic igneous rocks contain carbon, so when the ...
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16. Amethyst
    ... Quartz occurs in an unlimited variety of igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. ... Ametrine, Catamp39seye Quartz, Citrine, Phantom Quartz , Rock Crystal, Rose ...
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17. Calderas
    ... One of these land forms that is common in the igneous environments is ... interesting life cycles which are widely varied dependent on rock composition, tectonics ...
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18. Sources of Energy
    ... Rock dams consist of an embankment of loose rock with either a core impervious ... of groundwater that has passed through or near recently formed hot igneous rocks ...
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19. The Plants
    ... Terrestrial meaning, planets that are made mostly of rock and metal and have ... These asteroids appear to have an igneous surface composition like that of many ...
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20. Popocateamp39petl
    ... This combination of minerals suggests that these are igneous rocks. ... black smoke four miles 7 km high and sending an explosive blast of glowing rock into the ...
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21. fiberoptics ENDOSCOPY
    ... Greeks as krystallos hence the name crystal, or more commonly rock crystal, applied ... It occurs in nearly allacid igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks. ...
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