Slide 1Summer School Geosciences Geology Lecture 4 Rocks and the Rock Cycle Slide 2 Rock A rock is any naturally formed aggregate or mass of mineral matter that constitutes…

Slide 1 Classroom presentations to accompany Understanding Earth, 3rd edition prepared by Peter Copeland and William Dupré University of Houston Chapter 8 Metamorphic Rocks…

Slide 1 Slide 2  What is a rock?  ◦ Common rocks: rock is a mixture of minerals, rock fragments, volcanic glass, organic matter and other natural materials Slide…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Metamorphic Rocks Sometimes the temperature or pressure becomes high enough to alter rock but not high enough to melt it back into magma. The result is a…

Slide 1 Tectonic and Structural Landforms Both endogenic Both endogenic Create large-scale landforms Create large-scale landforms Tectonic Tectonic –produced by deep Earth…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Slide 3 Slide 4 FELSIC ROCKS: texture Intrusive Extrusive Muy extrusive GraniteRhyoliteObsidian Slide 5 Yosemite Valley: El Capitan Intrusive: slow cooling,…

Slide 1 Lake Sidney Lanier Water Supply for Atlanta, Georgia Field Photos 11/19/07 by J. Ebert Slide 2 Southeast Drought The Southeast U.S. is in the midst of one of the…

Slide 1 metamorphic rocks ESRT page 7 Slide 2 Key ideas HEAT & PRESSURE, forming new, larger, denser crystalline structuresFormed when existing rocks are changed by HEAT…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Slide 3 $100 Minerals Igneous Rocks Sedimentary Rocks Metamorphic Rocks Rock Stuff $200 $300 $400 $500 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $100…