EAPS 11100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Silicate Minerals, Metamorphic Rock, Ballistic Recovery Systems
23 Mar 2017
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It is the fundamental building block of major rock forming minerals. A rock or melt with relatively high silica melt at low temperature. Crystallized melt at low temperatures in brs. Crystallized melt at high temperatures in brs. The process in which a rock may be moved from one place to another or even converted into a new type of rock. Form on earth"s surface, mostly from loose sediment that is deposited from moving water, air, or ice. Sedimentary rocks occurs during weathering, erosion and transport, and deposition. Igneous rocks occur during burial and deformation and lithification. Igneous rocks occur during melting, solidification, and uplift. Some basalt derived from decompression melting of the mantle reaches the surface. Understand their names, the relative silica content, relative melting/freezing points and viscosities of these rock and magma types. Intermediate: melt at medium temperature, single chain/double chain/sheet silicates, Melt at high temperature, single tetrahedral/less silica, low viscosity.
