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rock cycle - ANSWERSa series of processes on the surface and inside Earth that slowly changes rocks from one kind to another migmatite - ANSWERSfoliated, ultra high-grade metamorphic rock with clear layers and large grains/bands gneiss - ANSWERSfoliated, high-grade metamorphic rock with visible mafic and felsic minerals schist - ANSWERSfoliated, high-grade metamorphic rock that has visible micas and has medium to large, flat, sheet-like grains in a preferred orientation contact metamorphism - ANSWERStype of metamorphism that occurs when a magma chamber intrudes the surrounding rock; the heat from the magma metamorphoses the surrounding rock phyllite - ANSWERSa foliated intermediate-grade metamorphicrock, containing small crystals of mica and chlorite that give it more or less glossy sheen slate - ANSWERSfoliated, low-grade metamorphic rock that is dark gray in color and has microscopic micas (fine grained) shale - ANSWERSsedimentary rock that is protolith for slate marble - ANSWERSnon-foliated rock that is effervescent and whose parent rock is limestone

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GEO 101 Lab: Metamorphic Rocks Exam
100% Accurate!!

rock cycle - ANSWERSa series of processes on the surface and inside Earth that slowly changes rocks
from one kind to another



migmatite - ANSWERSfoliated, ultra high-grade metamorphic rock with clear layers and large
grains/bands



gneiss - ANSWERSfoliated, high-grade metamorphic rock with visible mafic and felsic minerals



schist - ANSWERSfoliated, high-grade metamorphic rock that has visible micas and has medium to large,
flat, sheet-like grains in a preferred orientation



contact metamorphism - ANSWERStype of metamorphism that occurs when a magma chamber intrudes
the surrounding rock; the heat from the magma metamorphoses the surrounding rock



phyllite - ANSWERSa foliated intermediate-grade metamorphicrock, containing small crystals of mica and
chlorite that give it more or less glossy sheen



slate - ANSWERSfoliated, low-grade metamorphic rock that is dark gray in color and has microscopic
micas (fine grained)



shale - ANSWERSsedimentary rock that is protolith for slate



marble - ANSWERSnon-foliated rock that is effervescent and whose parent rock is limestone

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