Vocab Flashcard 4

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Rock materials with larger crystals that cooled slowly from magma.

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Intrusive

Front

Impure earth material made of several minerals.

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Rock

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Rock materials made of lighter colored minerals.

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Granitic

Front

Rocks formed of flat layers of varied minerals.

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Foliated

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Properties inherent to a substance.

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Characteristics

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Rock materials made of darker minerals.

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Basaltic

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Mineral property causing rough, jagged breaks.

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Fracture

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Property of a mineral that breaks along smooth flat surfaces.

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Cleavage

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Molten rock material released above the earth's surface.

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Lava

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Rock materials with smaller crystals that cooled quickly from molten lava.

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Extrusive