ESC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Quartzite, Lithification, Atomic Number
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Rock a coherent and naturally occurring solid made of aggregate minerals or mineraloids. Crystalline rocks whose crystals interlock with one another. Wentworth scale scale to specify the type of sedimentary particle based on size. Bedrock underlying the surface and still attached to the crust. Sedimentary formed as sediments are compacted and/or cemented into a singular mass formed as crystals precipitate out of a solution. Metamorphic formed when preexisting rock is put under intense heat and/or pressure. Lava magma at or near the surface of earth. Weathering the breakdown of rocks into smaller particles. Lithification a process that turns sediments into rock via compaction and cementation. Increased temperature comes from (metamorphism) burial cooling magma/lava heating liquids techtonics. Metamorphic facies a set of metamorphic minerals formed under similar pressures and temperatures. Nucleus of an atom composed of neutrons and protons surrounded by electrons.
