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GEOL 1307 Physical Geology Exercise #3 Rock Cycle.

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1 GEOL Physical Geology Exercise #3 Rock Cycle

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3 Types of Rocks Igneous Sedimentary Metamorphic Intrusive Extrusive
Pyroclastic Sedimentary Chemical Precipitates and Evaporites Fossiliferous Clastic Sorted Unsorted Metamorphic Foliated Unfoliated

4 Rock Texture Random Crystalline Texture Clastic Texture
Foliated Texture

5 Mineralogic Composition
Igneous Minerals Sedimentary Minerals Metamorphism Recrystallization

6 Using Texture and Mineralogic Composition to Identify Rocks
Igneous Rocks Intrusive Extrusive Pyroclastic Sedimentary Rocks Clastic Nonclastic Metamorphic Rocks Foliated Unfoliated

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