1. Factors that cause metamorphism are heat, pressure, and moisture. All of these three factors are important for regional metamorphism. The degree of regional metamorphism is impacted by the amount of heat, pressure, and fluids or gases to which the rock is exposed. These factor may occur in any combination. For example, a mass of rock may first undergo high pressure and moderate temperatures, and then be vulnerable to low pressure and high temperatures. Regional metamorphism occurs as mountain form and are subjected to high heat and pressure. Earth’s internal heat causes temperature to increase with depth. Overlying rock contributes to high pressure. Minerals in the rock align in layers when the pressure is stronger in one direction. This process can be speeded up with the help of hot liquids and gases in the deep rocks. The two types of local metamorphism (contact and deformational) are also affected by certain factors. Contact metamorphism occurs when hot magma heats and changes rock. Hot gases and liquids from the magma may also enter the intruded rock. Deformational metamorphism occurs at low temperatures and at high pressures caused by friction and stress. Heat from the pressure, friction, and stress cause the rock to change shape. The modified rocks generally have a mineral composition akin to their surrounding rocks. However, the altered rocks still exhibit changes in texture and structure.
2. Two examples of nonfoliated rocks are quartzite and marble. Foliation occurs when a rock is composed of several minerals with various melting points. When the rock is heated, minerals migrate throughout the rock. Bands are formed when the rock cools. Foliation also happens when a rock is compressed from one direction and partially ...
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...rocks is the most complex since it involves the most steps. Any igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic rock can become a sedimentary rock if it goes through the following process: uplift, weathering and erosion, turning into sediments, deposition, burial and compaction, and cementation. The number of steps involved here blatantly outnumbers the formation processes of other rocks.
5. Certain properties of marble make it good for sculpting. Marble is a metamorphic rock derived from limestone. It is composed chiefly of calcite. Marble is relatively soft and easy to work, refine, and polish. As the finished marble ages, it becomes harder and more durable. Marble’s translucency and fine-grained structure makes it a better choice than limestone. The fineness of marble’s grain enable the sculpture to create minute detail better. In addition, marble is more weather-resistant.
Produced from limestone over perhaps millions of years, the quarries in Italy's Apuane mountain range yield a rich, white marble that is world-famous for purity. Once prized by Michelangelo, who sculpted many masterpieces from Carrara marble, Italians still savor the look of marble in their homes. But in Italy, the scars and stains so easily imparted on Carrara marble stand as marks of character, almost like a picture history. In your home, you can enjoy the beauty and elegance without the marks with careful care. A poultice -- purchased or homemade -- can take out most stains.
and Metamorphic rocks can be found. There are also a lot of crusted plates, and violent
“Table rock is a conglomerate composed of olivine, augite, andesine, labrodorite, magnetite, hematite, apatite and orthopyroxine. Table rock is a geologist’s classroom as the lava caps display irregular column jointing and uneven displacement” (Lorenz, 1970).
Marble imitations are highly valued because they are a form of appropriation used to preserve the memory of destroyed art works. By creating an appropriation of an Ancient Greek bronze statue, the Romans preserved some of the history of art we would have otherwise never known existed. Had they just melted down the bronze without care for the potential art history we would only know of the very few statues found in ship wrecks.
...These rocks include indurated conglomerates, coarse-grain granites, and Arkosic and breciated granites. Furthermore, there are evidences to indicate that faulting took place in the area. Hydrothermal and epithermal action must have intruded the rocks in the Goldfield area forming small stringers of quartz. There are also evidences of sedimentary rocks such as sandstones, limestone and conglomerates found near Roosevelt Lake (Eppinga, 2006).
The geologic history of the Rocky Mountains has come about as an aggregation of millions of years. Briefly speaking, the formation of the Rockies transpired from hundreds and millions of years of uplift by tectonic plates and millions of years of erosion and ice have helped sculpt the mountains to be what we see today. The majority of the rocks that make up the Rocky Mountains began as simple shale, siltstone, and sandstone accompanied by smaller amounts of volcanic rock which formally built up for approximately 1.8 to 2 billion years in the ancient sea. By 1.7 to 1.6 billion years, these sedimentary rocks got caught in the zone of collision between parts of the earth’s crust and its tectonic plates. The incredible heat at the core of the mountain range then recrystallized the rock into metamorphic rock by the heat and pressure of the collision forces. Eventually, the shale would be transformed into both schist and gneiss. It is believed that granite found in the Rocky Mountain parks came from pre-existing metamorphic rock created shortly after the formation of the earth. Ultimately, the high mountains of the period were slowly eroded away to a flat surface exposing metamorphic rocks and granite. This process occurred around the period of 1,300 to 500 million years ago. This flat surface would become covered with shallow seas and rocks from the Paleozoic period and would be deposited and eventually cover the surface. There is...
The Rock Cycle The Rock Cycle is a group of changes. Igneous rock can change into sedimentary rock or metamorphic rock. Sedimentary rock can change into metamorphic rock or into igneous rock. Metamorphic rock can change into igneous or sedimentary rock. Igneous rock forms when magma cools and makes crystals.
Convection currents deep in the mantle of the earth, begin to well up towards the surface. As the pressure increases, it sets the crustal plates in motion. There are different kinds of mountains - Volcanic, Folded, Fault-block, and Dome mountains. Volcanic mountains are formed when magma comes up through cracks in the Earth’s crust and explodes out of lava and ash. The Hawaiian volcanoes, Mt. Hood, Mt. Etna, Vesuvius, and Mt. Saint Helens is an example of volcanic mountains.
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It is composed of two elements; oxygen and sulfur. This mineral can either be white in colour, gray, brown, orange, green, red, pink, yellow, beige, or it can be colourless, and the streak that it leaves is white. Based on the Moh’s Hardness scale, Gypsum falls somewhere around the 2 margin. Its lustre is close to that of glass (in properties and in appearance), and is considered vitreous. The cleavage—where it breaks along its line of weakness—is 1,1 – micaceous ; 2,2 and its fracture is uneven. Gypsum is slightly flexible, has low hardness, where it can be scratched by a fingernail, and is sectile (can be cut with a knife). Gypsum is a sedimentary rock, meaning it was formed by cementation at the surface of the Earth near bodies of water; it causes the mineral (gypsum) to settle within the
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Chemical Weathering is when water weakens the structure of the rock and Mechanical Weathering is where water seeps into the rock face causing fragments of rock to break off.
Chemical weathering is occurred by rainwater reaction to the mineral grains and it is new new rocks that form and become sobule. This reaction happen when the water is slightly acidic with the minerals and rainwater. Chemical weathering needs water, and when the temperature is warm the climate will grow. Words to understand when learning chemical weathering is mineral grains. (Mineral grains is found in very small rocks, and it is very hard to see them.) Chemical weathering takes place in almost all types of rocks. Smaller rocks are found in chemical weathering however, because they
The concurrent convective circulations in the mantle leads to some segments of the mantle moving on top of the outer core which is very hot and molten in nature. This kind of movement in different segments occurs as tectonic plates. These tectonic plates are basically seven on the earth surface as major ones, although, several small ones exist also. The plates motions are characterized by varying velocities, this variance results to sub sequential collision of two plates (leading to formation of a mountain in a convergent boundary), drift of two plates (leading to formation of rifts in a divergent boundary), or parallel movement in a transform boundary(Webcache 3).