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Halite Has 90 degree angles Transparent Hardness 2½ Tastes very salty and is more greasy |
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Calcite Luster :Vitreous, Pearly Diaphaneity (Transparency): Transparent, Translucent Calcite is tastelaess Reacts strongly to HCI Hardness 3 |
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Gypsum Has one plane of cleavage Luster: Vitreous, Sub-Vitreous, Silky, Pearly, Dull Color: Colourless to white, often tinged other hues due to impurities; colourless in transmitted light.. Streaks White Hardness 2 |
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Quartz Sandstone Sedimentary Clastic Rock Sand Sized Particles Color White to light tan Miscellaneous Feels sandy; Mature |
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Pumice Igneous Rock Extrusive Vesicular |
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Granite Igneous rock Felsic Phanertic ONLY PHANERTIC FELSIC ROCK WE HAVE Granite is specled |
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rhyolite porphyry Igneous felsic |
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Orthoclase Hardness 6 Two cleave planes at 90 degrees Comment: Pearly on cleavage Colour: Colorless, Greenish, Grayish yellow, White, Pink |
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Quartzite Metamorphic Non foliated Sandstone is protolithe of Quartz |
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Slate Metamorphic Foliated Protolithe is Shale Very fine grained |
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Rock Gypsum Sedimentary Rocks Chemical Very soft, use penny to scratch |
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Cocina Granola like appearance organic sedimentary reacts to HI |
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Crystaline Dolostone Has a very very slow reaction to HCI |
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Chalcedony Hardness 7 Mineral Diaphaneity (Transparency): Translucent Comment: vitreous when polished Colour: colorless, white, gray, blue, any color due to embedded minerals, multicolored specimen not uncommon. Streak: White |
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Chert sedimentary rock chemical |
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Follsilferous Limestone Organic Sedimentary |
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Conglomerate rock Sand pebbles Not calcite, does not react? look for whole pebbles sticking out |
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Metaconglomorate Protolithe of conglomorate Look for broken pebbles |
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Fluorite ONLY GREEN ROCK jollyrancher |
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Plagioclase minearal 2 planes of cleavage thin narrow grooves hardness & 6 |
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Pyrite No cleavage crystale phases 6 hardness goldier appearance |
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Olivine Kind of green has no cleavage |
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Schist Metamorphic foliated Protolithe is Shale |
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Dense Dolostone slow bubbles reacts slowly to HCI sedimentary Chemical rocks |
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Basalt Very very hard not magnetic, no crystals maephic igneous aphanetic extrusive |
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Magnatite super duper magnetic |
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Gabbro See crystals, all the same size phanertic mafic intrusive |
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Hornblende two planes @ 90 degress dark green to black amphibole |
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Antracite coal much lighter protolithe bitumous coal metamorphic nonfoliated |
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Obsidian Denser Igneious extrusive glassy heavier |
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Soapstone feels soapy always dark green metamorphized talc foliated |
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Shale Hear how brittle it is sedimentary clastic |
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Biotite Black shiny one sheet of cleavage layers mineral |
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Muscovite Mineral it's gold |
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Vesicular Basalt Igneious vesicular holy |
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Scoria Reddish in color lava rock |
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Bitumous Coal Sedimentary Rub off on hands |
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Garnet mineral reddish Crystals |
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Galena Shiny Metalic Luster Mined for lead |
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Arkose Sedimentary different sizes and shhapes |
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Graphite mineral can draw with it soft pencil lead |
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Diorite Igenous Morphic salt and peper cookies and cream |
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granite porphy has crystals different cooling rates |
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Chalcopyrite copper looking pyrite |
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Greywacke Feels sandy dirty rock |
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Geothite Streaks brownish mineral rusty has iron |
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