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    Igneous Rock Table

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    many rocks within the three different types of rocks. You will start at one table and rotate to the other two when your counselor tells you to do so. Igneous Rock Table: At this table you will use chemistry to cause a volcanic eruption. Spoon a small amount of baking soda into the caldera (opening) of the volcano. Squeeze some red dyed vinegar inside. What happens? As the magma flows out of the volcano it becomes lava. As the lava hardens it becomes igneous rock. Examine the igneous rocks next to

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    hot mantle can go. It can go to a mid-ocean ridge to make new crust, go into a magma chamber, that in special conditions to form igneous rocks. Throughout the rest of this essay, I will go into detail on how magma and lava can form igneous or metamorphic rocks. A magma chamber is a large underground pool of liquid rock found beneath the surface of the Earth. The molten rock in such a chamber is under great pressure, and when given enough time, that pressure can break an opening around it. If it finds

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    Volcano eruptions bring newborn rocks to the world. Every year, rock families would wait around volcanos for the erupted magma or surface lava to cool down. Each family would adopt the baby igneous rocks of their type, who share the same genes, or minerals, as them. These igneous rocks could have a variety of appearance and crystal sizes. Some rocks composed of surface lava have smaller, less complex crystalline structures. They were cooled much faster when they were in contact with air or water

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    gemstones to form. Small fragments of gemstones tend to be found scattered fairly sparsely throughout large bodies of rocks, or growing in small cavities in the Earth’s crust (“Natural Gemstones- Geologic Environment”). In order for gemstones to form, the perfect combination of temperature, pressure, space, chemical elements, and time must occur. Gemstones typically form in igneous rocks, but sedimentary and metamorphic can also contain gem minerals (“Natural Gemstones- Geologic Environment”). In nature

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    Find out about the geological history of the area. (a) What are the main geological features of this area? (Record reliable sources on page 14 in appropriate format.) The Undara lava tubes were formed due to the flow of lava that left behind cooled rock. Remnant dry forests surround the lava tubes. The most prominent feature of Undara is the Undara lava tubes. These lava tubes are some of the longest seen in the world, with some tubes reaching 100km long. In all, there have been over 50 caves recorded

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    of Quebec. The land is primarily made up of sedimentary rock that was lifted up and folded, because of the collision of North America with Europe and northern Africa during the formation of Pangaea, creating mountains. These sheets of sedimentary rock are wealthy in non-metallic minerals such as coal. In addition, volcanic action and faulting formed igneous and metamorphic rock in specific space in the Appalachians. Plateaus made of this rock carry metallic material, because of this such as iron and

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    The Western Cordillera stands on the western edge of the continent, range after range of mountains separated by valleys and plateaus. The Western Cordillera is the youngest land form on the east coast region, the region has many lakes, forests, and is on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. A lot of the mountain ranges in this region are popular which is the Rocky Mountains, another well known mountain is Mount Washington. The formation of the Cordillera is when the North America and Pacific plates collided

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    out along a ~400-km-long, NE-striking belt within the Kahiltna basin (Fig. 1). They are mainly flysch deposits inter-preted to have been derived primarily from the igneous rocks of the Peninsular terrane to the southeast, with local contri-butions from the Triassic Chilikadrotna Greenstones to the northwest (Wallace et al., 1989; Wilson et al., 2006). The Peninsular terrane is a Triassic to Jurassic island-arc complex that was accreted to the North American craton by the Early Cretaceous (Detterman

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    magmas in the volcanic complex. The evidence for this is the high δ^18O observed in fresh non-glassy rock units. Taylor and Sheppard (1986) argue that the differences in characteristics among rock units of the complex cannot be explained by the closed system fractionalization of an unaltered mantle melt. The concentrations of the oxygen isotopes suggest that the magmas that formed these igneous rocks have undergone some contamination with a crustal component containing a higher concentration of 18O

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    living or non-living organisms. Minerology is broad and interesting field of study. Igneous

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