It occurs as a metamorphic product in the contact zone between a large blueschist belt and a granodiorite stock. While neither mercury nor cinnabar (a mercury sulfide) is mentioned in the literature ...

Slightly larger than pea gravel, river rock is a smooth sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic rock that comes from rivers and creeks. There are roughly dozens of shades of black, gray, brown ...

A green garnet, tsavorite, also occurs in metamorphic rocks, but it’s rarer because it needs unusual ... and rhodolite is a beautiful purple-red garnet. Garnets can even exhibit the color-change ...

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The mineral is colorless in its pure form, but impurities can either make quartz crystals appear opaque or stain them pink, purple ... types of rock — igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic ...

Because the glacial erratics that we find in southwestern Ohio come from such a large area, they consist of a wide variety of rock types, including igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. These ...

The Moine Schist, the puzzling old rock found on top of younger rock here, is called a metamorphic rock. Metamorphic rocks are created when other types of rock become very hot or are squeezed ...

All of these are silicates except for one, corundum, an oxide. Such minerals are the result of chemical reactions involving preexisting minerals in sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic rocks. These ...

All Earth Science students need to understand the origins, environments, and basic processes that produce igneous and metamorphic rocks. This concise introductory textbook provides students with the ...

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