SIO 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Vesicular Texture, Aphanite, Flux Melting

• School: UCSD
• Department: Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Course: SIO 50
• Professor: Geoffrey Cook

Document Summary

Granite is a combination of feldspar, biotite, quartz. 3 types of rocks on earth the surface) Mineralogy- the minerals present in a rock. Magma is molten material inside the earth. Lava is magma that has erupted onto the surface. A rock is an aggregate of minerals. Gives us information about the environment of the formation of the rock. Rocks crystallize/ solidify directly from magma or lava (molten material on. Composed of fragments and pieces from other rocks (ig, meta, sedi) Pieces of rock ebris that are turned into a solid by being compacted and. When the rocks are changed by increasing pressure or temperature to alter a. When rocks are (cid:498)stressed(cid:499) under temperatures and pressures to undergo. The system in which rocks are constantlybeing recycled and transformed. Any type of rock being capable of being any type of rock through geological. Intrusive (formed under surface) dried from magma.