Rocks Station Lab Report Sheet

Igneous station:

1. Key words Answer questions in complete sentences

2. Texture = crystal size NOT how rock feels

3. C, E, F or B (vesicular CE, B glassy, F fine crystals)

4. A is pegmatite, cooled slowest. (it has huge crystals, bigger than 1cm)

5. C and E Vesicular

6. B, C, E and F are extrusive. See #3

7. A and D are intrusive. Large crystals.

8. Obsidian – Potassium feldspar, quartz, biotite, plagioclase feldspar, and amphibole. Obsidian is considered
LIGHT but looks dark because of the amphibole and biotite mixed in. It cooled so quickly that the minerals
didn’t have time to segregate. Obsidian is also transparent when thin enough.

9. Basaltic rock is more calcium rich (composition means the elements that make it up!)

10 Olivine requires a higher temperature to crystallize

11. Andesite and diorite are both intermediate as far as density, color. Differences: diorite is coarse
andesite is fine, diorite is intrusive andesite is extrusive.
Sedimentary station:

1. Key words

Answer questions in complete sentences

2. They are all clastic- land-derived sediments compacted and cemented together.

3. Particle size is big difference. Conglomerate= pebbles and cobbles. Shale= clay.

4. Breccia has angular fragments, conglomerate are rounded.

5. Limestone and Coal are both bioclastic! Formed from organic origin.

6. THIS QUESTION IS ASKING ABOUT DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS! Rock salt tastes

salty, and limestone effervesces with acid.

7. Bioclastic= limestone and bituminous coal. Both from organic remains.

8. Type is sedimentary.

9. Anthracite has a higher energy because it is denser having been under more heat and pressure than
the bituminous sedimentary version.

10. Bituminous coal you can’t just say “coal” because there are two types: sedimentary and
metamorphic. This one is referring to only the sedimentary version.
Metamorphic station:

1. Key words
Answer questions in complete sentences
2. Foliated and non-foliated

3. Foliated is flaky or platy crystals that have been flattened by heat and pressure. Like pages of a book
the crystals split apart easily.

4. Layering happens when sediments are deposited horizontally over time and may become cemented and
compacted (sedimentary) Banding happens with immense heat and pressure when foliation and
recrystallization happen to an extent that the minerals separate into light and dark bands (metamorphic)
5. Parent of marble is limestone or dolostone. When heat and pressure either through contact or
regional metamorphism is applied to limestone, it becomes marble.

6. Large areas- regional metamorphism. Immense heat and pressure, very deep underground=
foliation and then banding. Examples schist->gneiss

7. Contact metamorphism happens when the heat of an igneous intrusion affects surrounding rock
layers. Hornfels can always form from contact.

8. Gneiss has banding and foliation while schist only has foliation.

9. This is because gneiss is found deeper in the ground or within plate collisions having been exposed
to more regional metamorphism.

10. no rocks in the shaded region because this is where true melt would happen. That would mean that
would be an igneous rock.
Rock Cycle station:
Answer questions in complete sentences

1. No fossils in igneous rocks because they would melt.

2. Igneous can become metamorphic through heat and pressure

3. metamorphic rock ->igneous through melting and solidification

4. Igneous rock -> sedimentary through uplift, weathering erosion, becoming sediment, deposition and
burial (submergence), compaction and cementation (lithification)
5. crystallization = solidification after true melt in igneous rocks. Recrystallization is the rearrangement of
minerals due to heat and pressure in metamorphic rocks that never undergo true melt.

6. rock A sandstone or any clastic sedimentary rock. Rock B Andesite, or any extrusive igneous rock.
Rock C- Schist or any foliated metamorphic rock

Minerals station:Answer questions in complete sentence

1. One silicon, 4 oxygen in tetrahedron shape
1a. quartz, potassium felspar, plagioclase feldspar, biotite mica, muscovite mica, amphibole,
pyroxene, olivine, talc

2. Minerals INTERNAL ARRANGEMENT OF ATOMS determines physical properties

a. streak, hardness, cleavage or fracture, luster, are physical properties

3. streak is the powdered form of the rock when dragged across an unglazed porcelain tile.

4. luster is how a mineral reflects light- if it is metallic or not.

5.
 PERFORMANCE TEST PRACTICE TABLE
1. Examine A MINERAL (pick one). Describe it below

Metallic or non-metallic? ________________________

Mineral
Cleavage or fracture?__________________________ Use the flowchart to
#
find the mineral’s name:
Circle the correct choice regarding streak
a. colored b. colorless or white __________________
_
Does it scratch glass? ____________________

2. Examine A ROCK(pick one). Describe it below

Rock # TYPE of rock-______________________
EVIDENCE:
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________

3. Examine ANOTHER ROCK (pick another one). Describe it below

Rock # TYPE of rock-______________________
EVIDENCE:
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________

4. Describe the picture. Identify B, E and F with rock names and types.
_____________________________________________
__A___Conglomerate -sedimentary__________
__B__sandstone - sedimentary_____________
__C__limestone- sedimentary____________
F
__D___any igneous intrusive course crystal__________
__E__any intrusive igneous rock_______
__F ( is in the ) metamorphic hornfels or marble

Challenge Question: Which came first D

KEY

or C? Evidence? C first because it had to be

igneous there in order to be contacted by E
Graphic organizer station:
1. _____sedimentary_______
1a burial compaction deposition
cementation
banded!)
1b__sandstone (only)
3.
A.__slow_________
B.___ quick________
C._1mm-10mm _________
D. pumice, obsidian or scoria
2. ___ metamorphic _____
2a heat and pressure
2b_gneiss (ONLY gneiss is
4.
A chemical precipitates and
evaporites
B._ igneous _____
C._ any metamorphic rock
X.__ any sedimentary ____
y._ any sedimentary _____
z.____ any sedimentary ____