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Is phyllite a mineral or a rock?
Phyllite is a metamorphic rock.
What is a special feature of the center of a hurricane?
The special feature at the center of a hurricane is a calm area called the eye.
What does phyllite turn into?
Phyllite is metamorphosed slate, which is also a metamorphic rock. Shale or mudstone is the protolith (parent rock) of slate.
What does slate turn into if its heated and squashed?
phyllite
What is after phyllite and before gneiss?
schist
Is phyllite nonfoliated?
No. Phyllite is definitely foliated.
Is phyllite a mineral?
Phyllite is a metamorphic rock.
Is phyllite foliated or unfoliated?
Phyllite is foliated.
What is Phyllite used for?
phyllite is used in counter tops
Is phyllite a mineral or a rock?
Phyllite is a metamorphic rock.
What is the protolith of phyllite?
The parent rock or protolith of phyllite is slate.
Can gneiss metamorphose into phyllite?
No. Phyllite can metamorphose into schist and then into gneiss.
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What is the difference between slate and phyllite?
The degree of metamorphism. Phyllite is slate further metamorphosed.
What is the parent rock of phyllite?
Phyllite is a foliated metamorphic rock whose parent rock is slate.
What is the hardness of pyroxene?
Phyllite has a density of between 2.18 and 3.3, dry.
What is the origin of phyllite?
Phyllite is a type of metamorphic rock that comes from adding heat, pressure, and/or chemically active fluids to slate. Slate is the parent, or originial, type of rock from which the phyllite forms. It could also be said that slate recrystallizes into phyllite. Slate is also a metamorphic rock that starts out as the sedimentary rock called shale. Therefore, phyllite comes from slate, which comes from shale. Phyllite is different from slate because it has been metamorphosed more. As a result, the straight lines/planes (called foliation) that slate breaks along, are absent in phyllite, which is distinctly wavy in appearance. If more metamorphism is applied to phyllite, it recrystallizes into schist.
