Preliminary: Rocks and Minerals

[anatomy]

Will R&M be like fossils and focus on some history and individual specimens or will you also have to know different cycles?
as in cycles that create rocks and minerals

[quizbowl]

Will R&M be like fossils and focus on some history and individual specimens or will you also have to know different cycles?
as in cycles that create rocks and minerals

Sure! Check out trial rules on the website - it outlines it pretty nicely.

[anatomy]

Will R&M be like fossils and focus on some history and individual specimens or will you also have to know different cycles?
as in cycles that create rocks and minerals

Sure! Check out trial rules on the website - it outlines it pretty nicely.

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[Cheesy Pie]

Do they have anything about rock layers?

[rfscoach]

Do they have anything about rock layers?

here are the old/trial rules http://soinc.org/sites/default/files/up ... nerals.pdf
and here are some old tests http://www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center/p ... d_geo.html
Take a look.

[Cheesy Pie]

intrusive igneous rocks form when magma cools inside earth. It cools slowly, and is therefore coarser grained.
Extrusive ig. rock forms when lava cools on the surface. Generally it cools quickly. The rock is finer grained.

[Kokonilly]

intrusive igneous rocks form when magma cools inside earth. It cools slowly, and is therefore coarser grained.
Extrusive ig. rock forms when lava cools on the surface. Generally it cools quickly. The rock is finer grained.

...Yes... Add that to the wiki, why don't you? Or, just, y'know, edit and get medals. Medals are nice.

[gneissisnice]

intrusive igneous rocks form when magma cools inside earth. It cools slowly, and is therefore coarser grained.
Extrusive ig. rock forms when lava cools on the surface. Generally it cools quickly. The rock is finer grained.

...Yes... Add that to the wiki, why don't you? Or, just, y'know, edit and get medals. Medals are nice.

I suppose it's time for me to go and start editing the wiki then.

Yay, I get to feel helpful again! =)

[Cheesy Pie]

When gneiss (the rock, not the SciOlyer) experiences heat & pressure, what does it metamorphose into? Assuming it metamorphoses into anything.

[gneissisnice]

When gneiss (the rock, not the SciOlyer) experiences heat & pressure, what does it metamorphose into? Assuming it metamorphoses into anything.

It's the final stage of foliated metamorphic rock. So it gets metamorphosed...into more gneiss.

Though if you gneiss from the surface and then start applying heat and pressure, I'm pretty sure it'll go through the cycle again just like any other rock, starting with slate. I'm not 100% sure about that though (I haven't taken Petrology yet)