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Slate(Metamorphic) ~ -low-grade metamorphism -fine gained - originally mudrocks, and volcanic ash Phyllite (Metamorphic) ~ -glassy sheen an wavy texture -more temp and pressure than slate -Composed mainly of fine crystals of muscovite and chlorite Schist(Metamorphic) ~ -Medium to coarse gr...

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How does magma form


✓✓✓✓~ From partial melting. Magma chambers rise up through the surrounding mantle and
lithosphere.




How do igneous rocks form?


✓✓✓✓~ From magma cooling




What is magma that reaches the surface called


✓✓✓✓~ lava




What is an extrusive igneous rock?


✓✓✓✓~ Rocks that are formed when lava hardens above the Earth's surface. Extrusion can
be explosive or flowing.




What is an intrusive igneous rock?

,✓✓✓✓~ Rocks that are formed when magma hardens beneath Earth's surface. They
harden slowly.




What is a large body of intrusive rock called?


✓✓✓✓~ Pluton




What are extrusive igneous features


✓✓✓✓~ Lava flows, Fissure eruptions, Volcanoes(many different types)




Intrusive Igneous features


✓✓✓✓~ Batholith

laccolith


sills


Dykes


Volcanic Necks




What are the basic volcano types


✓✓✓✓~ Shield Valcano(Hawaii), Cinder cone(nicaragua), Composite cone(mount fiji)




Extrusive igneous bodies

,✓✓✓✓~ Lava, Volcanic tuff(pyroclastic flow), Volcanic ash




Batholith


✓✓✓✓~ A mass of rock formed when a large body of magma cools inside the crust




Laccolith


✓✓✓✓~ A local intrusive body with other rocks below(fed by dykes)




Examples of Batholiths


✓✓✓✓~ Sieraa nevada, Coast range on the west coast




Laccoliths examples


✓✓✓✓~ Devils tower(Wyoming), Mount Royal(montreal)

Torres del paine(chile)




What are magam 3 components


✓✓✓✓~ Melt(the liquid portion composed of mobile ions)




Solids(If any are silicate minerals that have already crystallized from the melt)

, Volatiles(gases dissolved in the melt like H2O, CO2 SO2) violitiles make magma

rise faster and change how it behaves




geothermal gradient


✓✓✓✓~ the gradual increase in temperature with depth in the crust on average 25 degrees
per km




Rocks in the lower crus and upper mantle are between what temperatures


✓✓✓✓~ 1500-2500 degrees




What 3 causes cause melting to beginning


✓✓✓✓~ Confining pressure drops slightly, Temperature increased, volatiles are introduced




What is decompression melting


✓✓✓✓~ melting due to a drop in confining pressure that occurs as rock rises




What is crystallization?


✓✓✓✓~ Cooling magma results in the systematic arrangement of ion into crystal structures.




What is a mantle of composed of peridotite rich of?

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