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| one of the common moineral that make up most of the rocks of earth's crust |
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| a usually light colored igneous rock thatr is found in continental crust |
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| a dark, dense , igneous rock with a fine texture found in an oceanic crust |
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| the particales of minerals or other rocks that give a rock its texture |
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| the look and fell of a rocks surface deturmaned by size, shape, and pattern of a rocks grain |
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| a type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at/or below the surface |
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| type of rock that forms when particels of other rocks that form when the remians of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together |
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| a type of rock that forms when an existing rock that is changed by heat, pressure, or chemical reaction |
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| igneous rock that forms from lava on earths surface |
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| igneous rock that forms when magma hardends below earths surface |
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| small, soil solid peices of amterial that come from rocks or organism |
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| that destructive process which water or wind loosen and caries away fragments of rock |
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| that process of which sediment settels out of the water or wind that is carring it |
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| that process by which sediments are pressed together by their own weight |
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| the process by which deisolved mineral crystalliz and glue particels of sediment together in one peice |
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| sedimentary rock that forms when rock fragments are squeezed under high pressure |
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| sedimantary rock that forms from remains of oragnisms deposited in thick layers |
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| sedimentary rock that forms when minerals crystallize form a solution |
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| a structure of calcite skeletons built up by coral animals and wram , shallow ocean water |
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| a structure of calcite skeletons built up by coral animals and wram , shallow ocean water |
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| term used to descibe metamorphic rocks that have grains aranged in parallel or bands |
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| a series of processes on the surface and inside earth that slowly changes rock from one kind to another |
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