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| A naturally occuring solid mixture of one or more minerals orgminc matter |
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| The series of processess in which a rock forms |
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| The processing which water air and ice break down a substence |
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| The way that the earth transports soil |
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| The process in which material is laid down |
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| The chemical make up of a rock |
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The quality of a rock that is baised on size and shape. |
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| Forces that destroy the crust |
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| Magma cools and becomes rock |
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| Grains of rock are cemented together |
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| When pieces of the earths crust colide |
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| Rock formed from the earth cooling |
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| Made form fragments of rock |
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| Chemcial Sedimentary Rock |
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| Formed from solutions of disolved minerals |
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| Forms from once living things |
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| A naturally formed inorganic solid that has a definete chemical structure |
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| A mineral that contains a combination of silicon and oxygen |
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A mineralthat does not contain combination of silicon and oxygen |
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The way in which menerals reflect light |
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| The color of the powder of a mineral |
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| The splitting of a mineral along smooth flat surfaces |
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| When the mineral breaks into curved or inregular shapes |
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| A measure of the ability to resist scraching |
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The ratio of the mass of a substence to the volume of a substence |
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A natural mineral whose concentration of the economically valuable minerals is high enough for the material to be mined prefitably |
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| The process of returning land to its original condition aftermining is complete |
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| The texture of metemorphic rock in which the mineral grains |
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| Unfoliated Metamorphic Rock |
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| The texture of metemorphic rock |
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