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| Fellow that put together the hardness scale |
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| fellow who figured out that a body in water is buoyed up by a force equal to the volume of water displaced |
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| man made object with a hardness of 5.5 |
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| gravitational differentiation |
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| heavies sink down, light float up |
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| ability to deform without breaking |
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| number of elements to make up 98% of earth's crust |
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| number of elements to make up 75% of earth's crust |
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| second most common element in earth's crust |
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| class which contains corundum |
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| number of times a sample is as heavy as an equal volume of water |
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| class of minerals which include human bone |
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| ability to withstand scratching |
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| natural solid with known structure and composition |
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| classification of mercury |
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| the most common class of minerals |
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| bubbling in response to dilute acid |
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| number four on the hardness scale |
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| easiest way to differentiate halite |
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| class which makes up most animal skeletons |
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| the least dependable visual characteristic |
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| class of minerals characterized by sulfur and oxygen |
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| the class to which pyrite belongs |
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| the way light bounces off a mineral |
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| class of minerals formed by evaporating water |
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| mineral which makes up human bones |
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| three dimensional expression of a mineral |
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| most common element in earth's crust |
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| man made object with a hardness of 6 |
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| trail of mineral left on porcelain plate |
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| cone composite of medium silica lava |
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| best example of flood basalt |
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| long crack vent which results in flood basalts |
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| largest volcanic eruption |
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| cause of volcanic eruptions |
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| fine grained pyroclastics |
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| positive result of volcanic eruptions used by farmers |
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| placement of magma into overlying rocks |
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| precious mineral formed in volcanic pipes |
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| site Idaho with good examples of volcanic features |
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| type of high silica volcano |
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| volcano which collapsed to form a caldera |
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| collective term for all landforms cooled beneath surface |
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| rocks or landforms formed on surface |
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| poor synonym for extrusive |
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| pyroclastic cloud with poisonous, explosive |
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| gravel sized pyroclastics |
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| violent mud slides caused by volcanic eruption |
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| large open wave caused by volcanic eruptions |
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| shrinkage forms in basalt |
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| volcano that erupted to envelope Pompeii |
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| large hot pyroclastic ejections |
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| myth accredited to the collapse of santorini |
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| volcano that results from low silica |
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| all rock formed by cooling magma |
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| results from lava flowing out from under a cooled solid layer |
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| hole underground where magma accumulates |
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| low silica basalt from long crack |
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| changed by silicon content |
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| materials thrown into the sky by eruption |
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| large holed caused by collapse of a volcano into magma chamber |
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| passage from magma chamber to vent |
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| hole through which magma pours out on surface |
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| fine grained rock with quartz |
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| low silica, dark minerals |
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| last mineral to form as magma cools |
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| first mineral to form as magma cools |
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| differential crystalization |
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| results in loss of elements from magma |
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| most common volcano formed by basalt |
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| sequence which lists the order minerals form as magma cools |
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| plagioclase rich coarse grained rock |
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| rock which makes up lithospheric plates |
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| many holes in extrusive rocks |
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| tabular body which cuts through previous rocks |
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| dike which goes around throat |
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| olivine, pyroxenes and amphibole coarse grained |
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| piece of country rock surrounded by phaneritic rock |
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| dike which extends away from throat |
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| composition with high silica with light minerals |
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| spreading ridge beneath continent |
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| formation of igneous rocks away from magma |
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| cause of yellowstone intrusions and extrusions |
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| collective term for all intrusive landforms |
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| taking minerals from country rocks into magma |
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| plagioclase, fine grained igneous rock |
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| extrusive with highest olivine content |
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| most common volcano formed by rhyolite |
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| small pluton with concave surface |
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| olivine rich extrusive rock |
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| first ferromagnesian mineral to form as magma cools |
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| quartz rich phaneritic rock |
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| most common element in the earth's crust |
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| second most common element in the earth's crust |
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| third most common element in the earth's crust |
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| Oxygen, silicon, aluminum |
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| Which three elements make up over 75% of the crust |
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| Oxygen, silicon, aluminum, sodium, iron, magnesium, calcium, potassium |
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| Which eight elements make up over 95% of the crust |
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| hexagonal porcelain plate |
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| what do they use to get around impurities and scratch the mineral across? |
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| luster of a handful of glass |
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| Moh's hardness of about 2.5 |
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| Moh's hardness of about 5.5 |
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| formula for specific gravity |
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| weight of the water displaced |
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| specific gravity of quartz |
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| round up the specific gravity |
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| If you have a lighter material in a heavier one, you would... |
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| round down the specific gravity |
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| If you have a heavier material in a lighter one, you would |
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| If the mineral is metallic, you compare it to... |
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| If the mineral is nonmetallic, you compare it to... |
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| Pyrite has a specific gravity of... |
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| The most common class of minerals |
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| concentration of minerals |
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| low profile volcano that doesn't stack up against the vent |
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| the only concordant pluton |
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| first mineral to be formed in the Bowen's Reaction Series |
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| first ferromagnesium mineral to be formed in the Bowen's Reaction Series |
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| The last feldspar to be formed in the Bowen's Reaction Series |
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| On the igneous rock chart, Rhyolite (top) corresponds to... |
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| On the igneous rock chart, Diorite (bottom) corresponds to... |
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| On the igneous rock chart, Gabbro (bottom) corresponds to... |
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| On the igneous rock chart, Komatite (top) corresponds to... |
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| On the Igneous rock chart, Mid Oceanic Ridge example |
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| On the Igneous rock chart, shield example |
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| On the Igneous rock chart, strato example |
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| On the Igneous rock chart, cinder example |
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| Texture of Mt. St. Helens |
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| the only texture to have quartz IRC |
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| the texture made up completely of olivine |
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| the texture that is mostly pyroxene and olivine |
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| Texture that is mostly amphibole and plagioclase |
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