Sire
Kassama
2014
 Conchoidal
Fracture: arrowhead or inside
of seashell
 Rhombohedral Cleavage: Deformed
cube without right angles
 A. SLATE: shale
is its parent rock
 B. SCHIST
 C. PHYLLITE
 What
would be the correct order of
metamorphic sequence, from low grade
to high grade metamorphism? slate,
phyllite, schist
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The Fall line is a Geological
boundary about 20 miles wide,
running from Columbus to
Augusta that represents an
ancient shoreline of the Atlantic
Ocean of the Mesozoic
separating major rock types .
State the major rock type,
Sedimentary or
Igneous/Metamorphic for each
of the 4 major geological regions
of Georgia.
1. Valley and Ridge
SEDIMENTARY
2. Blue Ridge METAMORPHIC
3. Piedmont
METAMORPHIC/IGNEOUS
4. Coastal Plain SEDIMENTARY
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ROCK NAME
TYPE ( Igneous, Sedimentary, metamorphic)
FORMATION
Igneous (Extrusive, Intrusive) (volcanic, plutonic) (felsic or mafic)
Sedimentary ( Clastic, chemical, biochemical, organic)
Metamorphic (Regional, Contact Metamorphism) (low grade-high
grade)
ENVIRONMENT
TEXTURE
Igneous (phaneritic, aphanitic, porphyritic)
Sedimentary (grain size)
Metamorphic Foliated or non-foliated
HARDNESS RANGE
MINERALS
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
(Color)
USES
OTHER PROPERTIES
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MINERAL FAMILY
CHEMICAL FORMULA
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF QUARTZ MINERALS:
HARDNESS
COLOR
STREAK
LUSTER
SPECIFIC GRAVITY
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE/HABITS
CLEAVAGE/FRACTURE
OTHER PROPERTIES
(Unique characteristics)
ENVIRONMENT
ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE
(USES)
 The
following questions and answers are
from the New York State Regents Website:
http://www.regentsprep.org/Regents/cor
e/questions/topics.cfm?Course=ESCI
 Geology.com