Answer the Following Questions on Rocks Using the Following Web Site
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Answer the following questions on rocks using the following web site. Go to the site and click on “Igneous” in the Quick Access area at the top. http://www.geo.utexas.edu/courses/303/303_Lab/lab_index.html
Igneous Rocks 1. What is the difference between magma and lava? 2. What is viscosity? What determines the viscosity of magma? 3. How are igneous rocks classified? Be specific! 4. What does Bowen’s Reaction Series describe? 5. Describe the differences between felsic, mafic, and ultramafic. 6. What is porphyry? 7. What does it mean if an igneous rock has no crystals? 8. Why is texture a good indicator of cooling history? 9. List and describe the landforms created by igneous processes.
Answer the following questions on rocks using the following web site. Go to the site and click on “Igneous” in the Quick Access area at the top. http://www.geo.utexas.edu/courses/303/303_Lab/lab_index.html
Igneous Rocks 1. What is the difference between magma and lava? 2. What is viscosity? What determines the viscosity of magma? 3. How are igneous rocks classified? Be specific! 4. What does Bowen’s Reaction Series describe? 5. Describe the differences between felsic, mafic, and ultramafic. 6. What is porphyry? 7. What does it mean if an igneous rock has no crystals? 8. Why is texture a good indicator of cooling history? 9. List and describe the landforms created by igneous processes.
Answer the following questions on rocks using the following web site. Go to the site and click on “Igneous” in the Quick Access area at the top. http://www.geo.utexas.edu/courses/303/303_Lab/lab_index.html
Igneous Rocks 1. What is the difference between magma and lava? 2. What is viscosity? What determines the viscosity of magma? 3. How are igneous rocks classified? Be specific! 4. What does Bowen’s Reaction Series describe? 5. Describe the differences between felsic, mafic, and ultramafic. 6. What is porphyry? 7. What does it mean if an igneous rock has no crystals? 8. Why is texture a good indicator of cooling history? 9. List and describe the landforms created by igneous processes.