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What are the characteristics of foliated and non-foliated metamorphic rocks?
Foliated rocks are metamorphic rocks that look like they have layers or the appearance of layers. Non-foliated rocks are metamorphic rocks without any foliation.
What are the two categories of metamorphic rocks?
Foliated--those exhibiting layering (gneiss, slate, schists), and non-foliated--without layers (marble, quartzite).
How you will know that the rock is metamorphic rock?
You can identify metamorphic rocks by various minerals or a lack of thereof (mineralogy), also by foliation: whether they're foliated or non-foliated. If they show presence of shistosity or gneissosity (alignment of minerals ) , fissility and grunular appearance.
When metamorphic rock has banded texture with minerals grains that are arranged in layers it is called?
Metamorphic rocks with a layered or banded look are referred to as foliated.
Metamorphic rocks that do not have distinct layers or bands?
non-foliated.
What are the characteristics of foliated and non-foliated metamorphic rocks?
Foliated rocks are metamorphic rocks that look like they have layers or the appearance of layers. Non-foliated rocks are metamorphic rocks without any foliation.
Do foliated rocks have layers?
Non-foliated metamorphic rocks generally do not have distinct layering.
How are foliated metamorphic rocks different from nonfoliated metamorphic rocks?
Foliated are made of interlocking crystals, non-foliated are not.
What are the two categories of metamorphic rocks?
Foliated--those exhibiting layering (gneiss, slate, schists), and non-foliated--without layers (marble, quartzite).
How you will know that the rock is metamorphic rock?
You can identify metamorphic rocks by various minerals or a lack of thereof (mineralogy), also by foliation: whether they're foliated or non-foliated. If they show presence of shistosity or gneissosity (alignment of minerals ) , fissility and grunular appearance.
What are foliated metamorphic rocks?
Foliated rocks have layers in them. We often refer to the layers as Banding.
What rocks have foliated structure?
"Foliated" rocks are usually metamorphic rocks like phyllite, slate, schist, and gneiss.
Metamorphic rocks that do not have distinct layers or bands?
non-foliated.
When metamorphic rock has banded texture with minerals grains that are arranged in layers it is called?
Metamorphic rocks with a layered or banded look are referred to as foliated.
How do you tell between foliated and non foliated?
Well foliated rocks have layers and non foliated does not have layers.
Classify metamorphic rocks as foliated or non-foliated?
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What do foliated and non-foliated rocks have in common?
They are both metamorphic rocks.
