Slide 1MineralsMinerals Slide 2 Question of the Day Question: Describe 2 of the stations from your minerals lab. Answer: ……… Turn In: Classifying Items Minerals Lab…

Slide 1 Content Composition of Earth Crust Minerals Groups Silicates Structures Silicates Minerals Nonsilicate Minerals Slide 2 Composition of Earth’s Crust Nearly 4000…

Slide 1 Slide 2 What is a Mineral? Naturally-formed solid substance with a crystal structure Naturally-formed solid substance with a crystal structure Pyromorphite Slide…

Slide 1 HAWAI‘I ROCKS (and minerals) Slide 2 Oceanite (from Mauna Loa) – a basalt with >40% mafic phenocrysts, and all the phenocrysts are olivine. olivine Slide 3…

Slide 1 Minerals Slide 2  Minerals are inorganic, naturally occurring, homogenous, crystalline substances. –Crystal: A solid substance with atoms arranged in an orderly,…

Slide 1 CHUNKY MINERALS Slide 2 5 PARTS TO THE DEFINITION OF A MINERAL 1. Not man made Answer: Naturally occurring Slide 3 2. Is not now, and was never alive. Answer: Inorganic…