01:460:100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Stromatolite, Silt, Igneous Rock

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Geological Sciences
• Course: 01:460:100
• Professor: Christopherlepre

Document Summary

Rock (high order building block) natural solid that is a conglomeration of minerals, natural glass, and fragments of other rocks. Minerals (low order building block) natural solid, predictable crystal and atomic structure. A diamond will always have the same predictable shape to it regardless of where it came from. Major layers of earth crust (continental-granite and oceanic-basalt) and mantle. Made of minerals (quartz), which are made of molecules (sio2), which are made of atoms of isotopes/elements (si, o, k, ca, fe, mg. Igneous rock form as a consequence of freezing of molten (melted) rock. Sedimentary rock form as a result of water, wind, ice, gravity, and organic clinical precipitation. Metamorphic rock change in temperature and pressure to other types of rock. Standstones (sedimentary) something that we see at a beach. Unique processes and settings create each type of rock. Destruction history can be destroyed in similar ways.