Metamorphic ESRT

Define Nonfoliated Metamorphic rock

• Do not appeared layered. Metamorphic Contact-Intense heat from magma does not show mineral alignment

• Mineral alignment and/or banding is present

• Extrusive (Volcanic) formed rocks

• Non-Intrusive formed rocks

Folding, Faulting, and Tilting are evidence of __________ Metamorphism.

• Regional

• Contact

• Regional and/or Contact

• Neither Regional or Contact

Which of these is a metamorphic rock?

• Gneiss

• Granite

• Scoria

• Conglomerate

How do metamorphic rocks form? 

• Heat and Pressure

• Compaction & Cementation

• Cooling of Magma

• Sediments & Glue

Which texture best describes the rock above?

• porphyritic 

• nonfoliated

• foliated

• clastic

metamorphic rocks have mineral grains that are not arranged in distinct bands.

• Conglomerate

• Non-foliated

• Foliated

• Permeated

What subjected to intense heat and pressure granite can become 

• sandstone

• gneiss

• quartzite

• slate

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Like many most metamorphic rocks, this black or blue stone is hard and stands up to wear and tear.  For this reason, we use ___ for chalkboards, roofing material, walkways and floors.  

• shale

• slate

• sandstone

• obsidian

What is the parent rock of slate

• sandstone

• limestone

• granite

• shale

What metamorphic rock is the result of heat and pressure on sandstone?

• sandstone

• limestone

• quartzite

• shale