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Obsidian
Extrusive Igneous Rock
Texture: Glassy
Color: Intermediate between light (felsic) and dark
(mafic) (blackish/brownish in color) |
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Dunite
Intrusive Igneous Rock
Texture: Phaneric
Minerals: Olivine with mica crystals intermittent
Color: Ultramafice (green crystalline) |
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Pumice
Extrusive Igneous Rock
Texture: Vesicular
Minerals: Felsic
Color: Felsic (white with a few grayish flecks) |
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Rhyolite
Extrusive Igneous Rock
Texture: Aphanitic
Minerals: Felsic
Color: Felsic (grayish with a few dark crystals) |
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Basalt
Extrusive Igneous Rock
Texture: Aphanitic
Minerals: unknown
Color: Mafic (no grains visible, very dark/black) |
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Scoria
Extrusive Igneous Rock
Texture: Vesicular
Minerals: unknown
Color: Mafic (black with 'rust', red/brown oxidation) |
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Granite
Intrusive Igneous Rock
Texture: Phaneric
Minerals: Felsic
Color: Felsic (orange and white crystals)
Remember: Granite - Granodiorite - Diorite
Light - light/dark - dark w/some light |
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Tuff
Extrusive Igneous Rock
Texture: Fragmental
Minerals: Felsic
Color: Felsic (buff colored with flecks of brown lightly
sprinkled in) |
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Andesite Porphyry
Intrusive Igneous Rock
Texture: Porphoritic
Minerals: unknown
Color: Intermediate between Felsic and Mafic (black
andesitic groundmass; medium sized columnar
black glass like crystals) |
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Gabbro
Intrusive Igneous Rock
Texture: Phaneric
Minerals: unknown
Color: Mafic (dark with white crystals - less than 50%) |
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Granodiorite
Intrusive Igneous Rock
Texture: Phaneric
Minerals: Felsic
Color: Felsic (fewer dark than light crystals)
Remember: Granite - Granodiorite - Diorite
Light - light/dark - dark w/some light |
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Diorite
Intrusive Igneous Rock
Texture: Phaneric
Minerals: unknown
Color: Intermediate between Felsic and Mafic (more
dark than light crystals)
Remember: Granite - Granodiorite - Diorite
Light - light/dark - dark w/some light |
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