Quizlet Metamorphic and Sedimentary Rocks

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  1. 3 major rock types: Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary
  2. 75% of rocks at earth's surface: Sedimentary Rock
  3. cementation: when the solution of water and dissolved minerals move through open spaces between sediments and cement the sediments together
  4. chemical: form when minerals are precipitated from a solution or left behind when a solution evaporates
  5. compaction: pressure upon layers of built up small sediments on lower layers causing lower layers to stick together and form solid rock
  6. congeneration: when both electrical and thermal energy produced by burning waste-coal used by the same plant (to run the plant)
  7. detrital: sedimentary rocks made from the broken fragments of other rocks that are compacted and cemented together
  8. erosion: the movement of weathered material
  9. examples of chemical rocks: limestone and rock salt
  10. examples of detrital rocks: larger: conglomerate and breccia smaller: sandstone and shale
  11. examples of organic rocks: fossil rich limestone, coquina, and coal
  12. Foliated Rocks: texture of rocks resulting from mineral grains flattening and lining up in parallel bands
  13. hydrate: mix with water
  14. Igneous Rocks: rocks formed by the cooling of molten rock (either magma or lava)
  15. Metamorphic Rock: rocks that have changed due to temperature and pressure
  16. most common rock below earth's surface: Igneous Rock
  17. Non-Foliated Rocks: texture of rocks where the mineral grains grow, change, and rearrange but do not form bands
  18. organic: rocks formed from remains of once living things
  19. Rocks: a mixture of minerals, mineraloids, glass, and organic matter
  20. Sedimentary Rock: form when 1.)sediments become pressed or cemented together 2.)sediments precipitate out of a solution
  21. sedimentary rocks are classified by:: compostion and the way they form
  22. sediments: loose material such as rock fragments, mineral grains, and bits of plant and animal remains moved by wind, water, ice, gravity, or dissolve on water
  23. types of sedimentary rock: detrital, chemical, and organic
  24. waste coal: a poor quality coal that is a by-product of coal mining
  25. weathering: process that breaks rocks into smaller pieces