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Homework 3

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1. What minerals are most common in detrital sedimentary rocks.

2. What is the primary basis for distinguishing between various detrital sedimentary rocks?

3. Distinguish between conglomerate and breccia.

4. Describe the two categories of sedimentary rocks.

5. What is an evaporite?

6. Compare and contrast the three main tyoes of volcanoes.

7. What is foliation?

8. How can a mineral develop a preferred orientation during metamorphism?

9.What are the two types of metamorphism and where can they be found?

10. In what ways can the parent rock affect the metamorphic process?

 

 

 

 

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