'Felsic rocks' presentation slideshows

Warm-Up 9-12

Warm-Up 9-12. If a region of a map has contour lines close together what does that tell you about the region? Why do contour lines never overlap? Draw a small contour map of a 100m tall mountain with two peaks. Maps and Topography! To LITHOSPHERE!. Rocks. What is a Rock?.

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Chapter Three

Chapter Three. Igneous Activity and Plate Tectonics. The Rock Cycle. A rock is a naturally formed, consolidated material usually composed of grains of one or more minerals The rock cycle shows how one type of rocky material gets transformed into another

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Chapter Three

Chapter Three. Igneous Activity and Plate Tectonics. The Rock Cycle. A rock is a naturally formed, consolidated material usually composed of grains of one or more minerals The rock cycle shows how one type of rocky material gets transformed into another

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Nelson Eby University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA 01854, USA Nelson_Eby@uml

A-type granites: characteristics, petrogenesis and their contribution to the growth of the continental crust. Nelson Eby University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA 01854, USA Nelson_Eby@uml.edu. The A-type Granitoids. Defined by Loiselle and Wones (1979)

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G. Nelson Eby Department of Environmental, Earth, & Atmospheric Sciences University Massachusetts

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Return to Igneous Rocks: Why bother?

Return to Igneous Rocks: Why bother?. Classifying igneous rocks based on chemistry/mineral content. Types of magma are defined by the relative proportion of silica (SiO 2 ) to the sum of Magnesium (Mg) and Iron (Fe) oxides When amount of SiO 2 increases, Fe + Mg decreases. Magma with high

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Igneous Rocks

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How To Use The Igneous Rock ID Chart (page 6)

How To Use The Igneous Rock ID Chart (page 6). The very first thing to understand is that you must become familiar with all the vocabulary on the page. . You need to know what the words mean and you also need to remember where they are on the chart so you can find them quickly and easily.

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Geol 2312 Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology

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