Across
- 2. Composed primarily of material formed directly by precipitation from solution or colloidal suspension
- 3. Sediments, soil and rocks are added to a landform or landmass
- 9. Lack foliated texture
- 12. Geological process in which earthen materials are worn away and transported by natural forces
- 14. Freshly deposited loose grains of sediment are converted into rock.
- 17. Being an intermediate between felsic and mafic compositions.
- 18. ¨____ And pressure¨
- 19. A common and widely distributed type of metamorphic rock.
- 22. A polyatomic anion with the formula CO2−3
- 24. Metamorphism affecting rocks over an extensive area as a result of the large-scale action of heat and pressure.
- 25. Organic-rich fine-grained sedimentary rock containing kerogen.
- 27. Group of light-colored minerals including feldspar, feldspathoids, quartz, and muscovite.
- 28. Turn from liquid into vapor.
- 29. Magma that's been expelled to the surface of earth
- 30. Rocks composed of broken pieces of older rocks.
- 31. He process of wearing or being worn by long exposure to the atmosphere.
- 32. The weight of air pressing down on the earth's surface.
Down
- 1. Extrusive rocks are formed on the surface of the Earth from lava
- 4. Forms when magma is trapped deep inside the Earth
- 5. A group of dark-colored, mainly ferromagnesian minerals such as pyroxene and olivine.
- 6. The movement of material across the Earth's surface by water, wind, ice or gravity.
- 7. Body of intrusive igneous rock
- 8. Clastic sedimentary rock made up of rounded clasts that are greater than two millimeters in diameter
- 10. Repetitive layering in metamorphic rocks.
- 11. Is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula SiO 2
- 13. The diameter of individual grains of sediment, or the lithified particles in clastic rocks.
- 15. State of being thick, sticky, and semifluid in consistency, due to internal friction.
- 16. Relating to or derived from living matter.
- 20. Lithified sedimentary rock consisting of angular or subangular fragments larger than 2 millimetres
- 21. Shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic as
- 23. Lava that hasn't seen the surface
- 26. Metamorphism due to contact with or proximity to an igneous intrusion.
