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What Is a planar parallel alignment of different mineral bands in a metamorphic rock?
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What is a foiliated metamorphic rock?
A foiliated metamorphic rock is a metamorphic rock that has a texture of parallel alignment of mineral grains. Your Welcome...
Is it true that foliated metamorphic rocks have mineral grains that are randomly placed?
It is not true. Metamorphic rock foliation is displayed as banding or layering due to mineral alignment.
What metamorphic rock has no obvious alignment of any type of mineral crystals?
Nonfoliated rock
What Mineral alignment in a metamorphic rock usually gives the rock a porphyritic texture?
A porphyritic texture can be a feature of igneous rocks, but 'porphyritic' is not used to describe metamorphic rock texture. Metamorphic rocks can be foliated or non-foliated, terms used to describe mineral alignment or banding, or the lack thereof.
What can rock foliation tell us?
Rock foliation is the result of pressure and recrystallization when rocks undergo metamorphosis. It is the layering and parallel alignment of flattened or directionally oriented mineral crystals. Slate, phyllite, schist, and gneiss are all metamorphic rocks with foliated texture.
Is a strong parallel alignment of different mineral bands in a metamorphic rock?
Foliation
What is a foiliated metamorphic rock?
A foiliated metamorphic rock is a metamorphic rock that has a texture of parallel alignment of mineral grains. Your Welcome...
What is a metamorphic rock that has parallel alignment of mineral grains?
A folliated texture metamorphic rock, like shist.
Is it true that foliated metamorphic rocks have mineral grains that are randomly placed?
It is not true. Metamorphic rock foliation is displayed as banding or layering due to mineral alignment.
What metamorphic rock has no obvious alignment of any type of mineral crystals?
Nonfoliated rock
What Mineral alignment in a metamorphic rock usually gives the rock a porphyritic texture?
A porphyritic texture can be a feature of igneous rocks, but 'porphyritic' is not used to describe metamorphic rock texture. Metamorphic rocks can be foliated or non-foliated, terms used to describe mineral alignment or banding, or the lack thereof.
What is metamorphic rock in which mineral crystals are arranged in parallel layers or band?
They are called foliated metamorphic rocks.
What type of metamorphic rock is composed of mineral grains arranged in parallel layers?
Foliated.
What platy parallel mineral grains are the most visual aspect of foliated metamorphic rocks?
Mica.
What can rock foliation tell us?
Rock foliation is the result of pressure and recrystallization when rocks undergo metamorphosis. It is the layering and parallel alignment of flattened or directionally oriented mineral crystals. Slate, phyllite, schist, and gneiss are all metamorphic rocks with foliated texture.
What is mineral alignment?
the alignment of a mineral structure
Metamorphic rocks such as marble and quartzite are said to be what because their mineral grains are not arranged in parallel layers or bands?
Nonfoliated
