EARTH SCIENCE RevieWER

Mon's hardness scale

I easily flakes when scratched by fingernail

2 easily scratched by fingernail

3 can be scratched by copper penny

4 can Easily be scratched by steel nail

5 can be scratched by steel nail

cannot be scratched by steel bi't can scratch

6 glass

7 can scratch steel 6 glass

8 can scratch quartz a

9 can scratch Topaz

10 Hardest known mineral Diamond

ROCK IDENTIFICATION Based sa Rock Classic
nasi herd ni
sandstone
Sir I
Cung mga yes
same sized grains
granular ing
Cnulatkiz

conglomerate
granular Differentsizes ofgrains

Pumice
has holes
floats

Basalt
has holes
Does not float

Schist
Moh's scale of hardness is higher than 8

mostly one color

Breccia
 Moh's scale of hardness is higher than 8

multi colored

crystals are large

Granite
Moh's scale of hardness is higher than 8

multi colored

crystals are small

limestones
Moh's scale of hardness is loner than 8
fizzes with acid

obsidian
Moh's scale of hardness is loner than 8

shiny

slate
Moh's scale of hardness is loner than 8

mostly one color

Gneiss
Moh's scale of hardness is loner than 8

multi colored

classification of rocks characteristics 3

intrusive plutonic

Igneous rocks I extrusive volcanic

Texture course grained or fine grained

course grained visible without magnification

fine grained not ulible to the unaided eye
Book
Based

Mineral composition primarily composed of felsic to

mafic quartz olivines pyroxenes amphiboles
mical intermediate

felsic feldspar 4 silica

Mafia magnesium Y iron

color crystalline appearance compared to open

Rock types
other characteristics
vesicles small holes
glassy texture
porphyritic texture large 4 small crystals

sedimentary rocks

layering Distinct horizontal layers bedding

planes

grain size y sorting

cementation

color composition

greengray to red spectra

olive gray to black

Ripple man s
4 cross Bedding
 rocks
metamorphic
Foliation
mineral composition common mica garnet p quartz

texture foliated to non foliated

parent rock

ex if you know that the rock was originally

a limestone 6 has undergone metamorphism

a marble
it may be
1

changes in appearance

of light and dark minerals that form during

metamorphism

Non Foliated abfot platy wary alignments

of light and dark minerals that form durin

metamorphism
ROCK FAMILIARIZATION

sandstone sedimentary

characteristics
granular same size

sand sized grains

color white tan yellow red brown 4 gray
Texture Ranges from course to the grained

conglomerate sedimentary

not same sides

granular
characteristics
clastic composition
size ofclasts

Pumice pyroclastic igreousrock

not granular
has holes
floats
Basalt extrusive igreouspock

Irony

Mgm
not granular
mafia a
has holes
Doesn't that
schist metamorphic rut
or granular
no holes
Man's 8
one color
 or some igneous
formed by mudstone shale
Rock

Breccia sedimentary clastic

hot granular large

fine grained cryital
no holes
multicolored a
8 G T
o multicolored
intrusive
Granite Igneous rock

i not granular
Quan 9 feldspar
s no holes
granular
8 9

linestrrelisedimentary.multicolned
mall
 in hot
a
granular
s no holes
mon low 8 t
fizzy acid
calcite aragonite

OBSIDIAN extrusive igneous rock

a hot granular
s no holes
mon low 81
Does not fill
w acid
cools rapidly shiny
Slate metamorphic

o not grammar
finegrainedclayey p no hotel
not shiny
8 below
one
o no tizz
color
 greiss metamorphic

metamorphosis of granite sedinetaryrock o not grammar

no hotel
Distinct foliation not shiny
g below
no tizz multicolored

Igneous metamorphic sedimentary

sandstone schist conglomerate

pumice gneiss a Breccia
Basalt slate limestone
granite
obsidian

molten rock Lo Lo unconsolidate

materials fragments have
that cooled 4 accumulated
solidified together