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| TO MEASURE THE TENDENCY OF A CHEMICAL COMPOUND TO MAINTAIN ORIGINAL CHEMICAL COMPOSITION, INSTEAD OF DECOMPOSING INTO DIFFERNT CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS |
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| ZONES OF WEAKNESS IN HUGE IGNEOUS ROCK STRUCTURES. |
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| HEAT, PRESSURE AND CHEMICAL PROCESSES |
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| EXAMPLES OF FORCES/PROCESSES THAT WILL CHANGE THE FORM OF EXISTING ROCKS. |
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| LATIN MEANING "FROM FIRE" |
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| TEMPERATURE, PRESENCE OF FLUIDS AND PRESSURE |
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| THREE FACTORS THAT CAN DETERMINE IF A ROCK WILL MELT |
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| PROCESS BY WHICH DIFFERENT MINERALS MELT AT VARYING TEMPERATURES |
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| BATHOLITH, LACCOLITH, SILL |
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| EXAMPLE OF PORPHYRITIC TEXTURED IGNEOUS ROCK |
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| TENDANCY FOR CURRENTS OF AIR OR WATER TO SEPARATE SEDIMENTS ACCORDING TO SIZE |
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| COMMON DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT EXAMPLES |
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| LAYERS AND BEDS OF SEDIMENTARY ROCKS |
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| IN STRATIFICIED SEDIMENTARY ROCK, WHEN SEDIMENT SETTLES ON THE BOTTOM AND LARGE GRAINS SETTLE ON TOP |
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| IN SEDIMENTARY ROCK, LUMPS THAT HAVE COMPOSITIONS DIFFERENT FROM THE MAIN BODY OF ROCK |
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| HOW MOST METAMORPHIC ROCK FORM |
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| TYPE OF ROCK TEXTURE RESULTING FROM EXTREME PRESSURE CAUSING MINERALS IN METAMORPHIC ROCK TO REALIGN OR WHEN MINERALS SEPARATE INTO DARK AND LIGHT BANDS |
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| NONFOLIATED ROCK EXAMPLES |
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| NONFOLIATED ROCK USED AND BUILDING OR SCULPTING MATERIAL |
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| PRESENCE OF FLUID, PRESSURE, TEMPERATURE |
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| FACTORS INFLUENCING THE MELTING OF ROCK |
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| FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION |
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| CRYSTALLIZATION OF REMOVAL OF DIFFERENT MINERALS FROM COOLING MAGMA |
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| CHEMICAL STABILITY OF ROCKS |
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| DEPENDENT ON STRENGTH OF CHEMICAL BONDS BETWEEN ATOMS OF MINERALS |
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| CHEMICAL SEDIMENTARY ROCKS |
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| FORMED FROM MINERALS ONCE DISSOLVED IN WATER |
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| SEDIMENTARY ROCK MADE OF ROCK FRAGMENTS THAT BECOMES COMPACTED OR CEMENTED TOGETHER |
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| SEDIMENTARY ROCK FEATURES |
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| STRATIFICATION, MUD CRACK, RIPPLE MARKS |
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| RESULTING FROM CHANGES IN TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE OVER A LARGE AREA |
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| VOLCANO, VOLCANIC PEAK, LAVA PLATEAU |
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| SERIES OF CHANGES DESCRIBING GEOLOGIC FORCES THAT CAUSE ROCK TO CHANGE FROM ONE TYPE TO ANOTHER |
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| CLASSES OF SEDIMENTARY ROCKS |
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| VOLCANIC, CHEMICAL, ORGANIC |
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| EXTRUSIVE STRUCTURE EXAMPLES |
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| LAVA FLOW, LAVA PLATEAU, VOLCANIC NECK |
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| SANDSTONE, CONGLOMERATE, SHALE |
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| PROCESS BY WHICH ONE TYPE OF ROCK CHANGES INTO ANOTHER TYPE OF ROCK DUE TO CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR CHANGES IN TEMPERATURE AND/OR PRESSURE |
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| MINERAL PAIRS THAT MELT FIRST IN PARTICLA MELTING DURING FORMATION OF MAGMA |
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| SEDIMENT THAT HAS GRAINS OF APPROXIMATELY THE SAME SIZE |
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| THE FARTHER THE SEDIMENT TRAVELS FROM ITS SOURCE, THE SMOOTHER THE GRAINS BECOME |
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