How is a garnet formed?
Most garnet forms when a sedimentary rock with high aluminium content, such as shale, is metamorphosed (subjected to heat and pressure). The high heat and pressure breaks the chemical bonds in the rocks and cause minerals to recrystallise. Garnets can also be found in igneous rocks such as granite and basalt.
What type of metamorphism is Garnet?
The rock-forming garnets are most common in metamorphic rocks. A few occur in igneous rocks, especially granites and granitic pegmatites….Origin and occurrence.
What happens to minerals as temperature and pressure increase?
When pressure and temperature change, chemical reactions occur to cause the minerals in the rock to change to an assemblage that is stable at the new pressure and temperature conditions. Temperature increases with depth in the Earth along the Geothermal Gradient. Thus higher temperature can occur by burial of rock.
What rock is formed by heat and pressure?
Metamorphic rocks
What are the two types of metamorphic rock?
Metamorphic rocks are divided into two categories- Foliates and Non-foliates. Foliates are composed of large amounts of micas and chlorites. These minerals have very distinct cleavage. Foliated metamorphic rocks will split along cleavage lines that are parallel to the minerals that make up the rock.
What are the three rock types?
Three Types of Rock: Igneous, Sedimentary & Metamorphic | AMNH.
Schist has medium to large, flat, sheet-like grains in a preferred orientation (nearby grains are roughly parallel). It is defined by having more than 50% platy and elongated minerals (such as micas or talc), often finely interleaved with quartz and feldspar.
What Colour is schist?
green colour
Are schist rocks worth anything?
Schist may be worth mining if it contains useful minerals in large concentration. Common minerals extracted from schistose metamorphic rocks are garnet, kyanite, talc and graphite. A heap of quartz schist slabs demonstrating platy habit which is caused by the abundance of platy minerals.
Can I tumble schist?
Gneiss and schist, even calcite, similarly, are too irregular or soft. Quartz, feldspar, quartzite, maybe others, can tumble-shine but only with pellets after the coarse grind, or else they frost.
What type of rock is a Protolith?
The type of rock that a metamorphic rock used to be, prior to metamorphism, is called the protolith. During metamorphism the mineral content and texture of the protolith are changed due to changes in the physical and chemical environment of the rock.
What is the Protolith of Orthogneiss?
Definition: A gneiss with mineralogy and texture indicating derivation from a phaneritic igneous rock protolith. Typically consists of abundant feldspar, with quartz, and variable hornblende, biotite, and muscovite, with a relatively homogeneous character.
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