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Lab 2 Worksheet Minerals and Rocks (50 points, 50 possible answers)
Name Skylah Henderson______ (-2 points if missing) Date 2/9/24_______
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The powerpoints are your lab book.
Use them, and the Mineral and Rock Identification attachments, to answer all questions in each part. Please explain everything in your own phrases and sentences.
The worksheet is NOT the quiz! Use the powerpoint as you work to find your answers, or how to determine answers. This is the learning stage of the class. Humans learn by repetition, so by going over everything several times by hunting
down answers, you will gain more than you think you will!
Part 1 Minerals
(
Use mineral box, Mineral powerpoint, and Mineral Identification Guide in the Lab powerpoint area of class
)
Description of your personal sample
: Include color, luster, hardness, cleavage or fracture, and special or distinguishing characteristic if any. Use the mineral and rock identification handouts in the content area. Non-observable info will take points off. Mineral
Number
Luster Color
Hardness Streak
Cleavage
or
Fracture
Other if
applicable
Mineral
Name
1
Metalli
c Green
9
none
2
Transpare
nt flourite
2
Non-
metalli
c tan
6
none
2
feldspar
3
metalli
c Black/
sparkl
e
6
black
1
hematite
4
metalli
c green
7
Black
fracture
pyrite
5
nonme
tallic
Silver
&whit
7
none
frac
quartz
e
6
nonme
tallic
opaqu
e
white
3
white
2
calcite
7
plastic
siver
2
none
1
muscovit
e
8
metal
black
7
black
1
magnetite
9
nonme
tallic
white
4
white
3
alabaste
10
luster
grey
1
White
1
talc
11
Luster
opaqu
e
3
none
3
halite
12
plastic
Opaq
ue
pink
2
brown
2
biotite
13
metalli
c
black
4
black
4
graphite
14
Nonm
etallic
Opaq
ue
white
1
white
1
satin
15
Non
metalli
c
clear
1
none
1
selenite
1.
Between hematite and magnetite, which one has a red/brown streak? Between hematite and magnetite, the one with the red streak is hematite, magnetite has a black streak.
2.
Which of the following images is potassium feldspar and which is plagioclase feldspar? Explain how you can tell.
a.
Plagioclase feldspar
b. answer: potassium b.
Explain: potassium feldspar because it is opaque with 2 directions that are 90 degrees.
3.
Which of your samples in the box left dark smudges on your fingers?
a.
Graphite, magnetic, and pyrite 4.
Compare your samples of quartz and calcite. What is similar and what is different?
a.
Similar: luster and color b.
Different: hardness, streaks, and clevages
Part 2 Igneous Rocks (Use rock box, Igneous rocks powerpoint, and Rock Identification Guide in the Lab powerpoint area of class)
**Used to be two boxes each labeled 1-15, switching to single box labeled 1-30. Minerals are samples 1-15, rocks are samples 16-30. Rock
Sample
Number
Texture
Composition Other
Observations if
applicable
Rock Name
1 (16)
smooth
Felsic
glassy
Obsidian 2 (17)
Rough
Felsic
grey spots
Granite
3 (18)
rough
mafic
air bubbles basalt
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4 (19)
Grainy
Felsic
Pale
pumice
5 (20)
Smooth
Felsic
pale
Rhyolite
1.
What is the difference between granite and rhyolite?
a.
The different between Granite and rhyoliteis that granite has bigger crystals and rhyolite crystals ate thinner
2.
What rock is likely to have plagioclase feldspar, pyroxene, and some olivine, and have crystals large enough to see with the naked eye?
a.
Feldspar 3.
In this image, there is a type of igneous rock. What is it?
a.
The rock that's floating is a pumice 4.
Of the rock samples you have in your box, which of these are extrusive igneous rocks?
a.
Granite 5.
Name the two ultramafic rocks in the igneous powerpoint. Identify which is intrusive and extrusive.
a.
Peridotite is an igneous intrusive rock
b.
Komatiite is an extrusive ultramafic rock
Part 3 Sedimentary Rocks (Use rock box, Sedimentary Rocks powerpoint, and Rock Identification Guide in the Lab powerpoint area of class)
**Used to be two boxes each labeled 1-15, switching to single box labeled 1-30. Minerals are samples 1-15, rocks are samples 16-30.
Rock
Sample
Number
Texture
Grain Size Other
Observations if
applicable
Rock Name
6 (21)
Biogenic
.032mm
smooth
shale
7 (22)
Rough
&bumpy
.125-.25mm
Grainy
Calc tufa
8 (23)
Grainy
1-2mm
Full of pebbles
sandstone
9 (24)
Rough
clastic
>256mm
grainy
Conglomerate 10 (25)
Lumpy but
smooth
.063-.125
smooth
Limestone 5.
How could you determine which cement is holding your sandstone together?
a.
Acid reaction & color
6.
Based on the description of limestones in the lab powerpoint, what type of limestone is shown here? a.
b.
Coquina, because of the some shell
7.
Identify a test to quickly determine any kind of limestone.
a.
Adding acid to see if it reacts Part 4 Metamorphic Rocks (Use rock box, Metamorphic powerpoint, and Rock Identification Guide in the Lab powerpoint area of class)
**Used to be two boxes each labeled 1-15, switching to single box labeled 1-30. Minerals are samples 1-15, rocks are samples 16-30.
Rock
Sample
Texture
Parent Rock Other
Observations if
Rock Name
Number
applicable
11 (26)
Smooth
Shale
Very flat
Slate
12 (27)
Smooth
Limestone
Marble
13 (28)
Smooth
sandstone
Hard
Quartzite
14 (29)
Grainy
granite
Crystals Gneisis
15 (30)
Lumps Shale
crystals Schist
1.
What controls the mineral composition of a metamorphic rock?
a.
The parent rock
2.
What are two ways to quickly distinguish between marble and quartzite?
a.
Marble is soft and reacts to acid meanwhile quartzite is hard and non reactive to acid
3.
Identify the 4 foliated subtextures
a.
Slaty
b.
Phyllitic
c.
schistose
d.
Genesis 4.
Identify the 3 nonfoliated subtextures.
a.
granoblastic
b.
porphyroblastic
c.
glassy
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