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What refers to a rock's tendency to split along parallel planes?
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What is a minerals cleavage?
Cleavage is the tendency of a mineral to break along smooth planes parallel to zones of weak bonding.
What can cleavage and fracture do to a mineral?
Cleavage is the tendency to break along flat surfaces, and fracture is the tendency of a mineral to break into irregular pieces.
Which line of latitude that divided North and South Korea?
The 38th parallel.
What is the cleavage of gold?
Gold does not have a cleavage it has a fracture: The type of fracture is hackly or jagged. Cleavage usually relates to crystals (although cleaving crystals can also be made to fracture too).
What is the word for the slab of rock that forms when magma forces itself across rock layers?
If the magma forces itself along a plane that is parallel to the bedding or foliation planes of the rock strata then (in other words it squeezes between two existing layers) it is a sill. If however it cuts across the bedding or foliation planes it is a dyke. For more information, please see the related links.
What is a minerals cleavage?
Cleavage is the tendency of a mineral to break along smooth planes parallel to zones of weak bonding.
What is mineral's cleavage?
Cleavage is the tendency of a mineral to break along smooth planes parallel to zones of weak bonding.
What is the tendency of a mineral to break along certain planes?
The tendency of some minerals to break along certain planes is called, "Cleavage".
What is the tendency of a mineral to break along planes of weakness producing smooth parallel breaks known as?
Cleavage is the tendency of a minerals to break along flat surfaces. It means that the make up of the mineral is uneven, dense on one side and not dense in the other, causing the mineral to break along flat surfaces. The tendency of a mineral to break irregurlary is fracture.
What is the difference between crystal form and cleavage?
Crystal form refers to the geometric shape the mineral acquires upon solidification. Cleavage is a mineral property that describes the tendency of a crystal to break along planes of weakness.
What is salt's cleavage?
The rocks tend to spilt along parallel planes defined by distribution and parallel arrangment of platy mineral crystals.
What is the physical property denoting a minerals tendency to crack along parallel planar surfaces?
cleavage. cleavage.
Minerals have a zone of weakness?
Minerals do have zones of weakness. They are known as cleavage planes. It is the tendency for minerals to break along flat, parallel surfaces. They come in a variety of categories, but it is ultimately where the mineral will break if struck. It cal be basal, prismatic,cubic, rhombohedral, octahedral, or dodecahedral.
Could the intersection of 3 planes be a line?
The intersection of 2 non-parallel planes is always a line.The intersection of 3 planes doesn't have to be a line, but it can be. If it is,then there are an infinite number of other planes that can also intersect thosethree along the same line.
What is it called when a mineral breaks along weakly-bonded plane?
Cleavage is the tendency of materials to split along definite structural planes, yielding smooth surfaces. An example is shales or shists.
When a mineral breaks along a weekly bonds plane it is called?
cleavage.
Can rocks have cleavage?
Yes. Cleavage (referring to rocks) is the tendency to break along its crystal planes, thus reflecting it's mineralogy. Not all rocks have cleavage.
