Granite is felsic on the color index. It is largely composed of potassium feldspar and quartz.
A gneiss is a metamorphic rock. Metamorphic rocks are created by the alteration of rocks by heat and pressure. Therefore, a gneiss may be created from an igneous rock in which case it would be called an orthogneiss.
No, it's an igneous rock, made from cooling and consequently solidification of a magma. Animals (or any other organism) capable of leaving behind a fossil can not survive and do not live in a magma. Fossils can be found in sedimentary rocks or in metamorphic rocks (if the protolith, the original rock, was sedimentary). In metamorphic rocks, fossils are generally intensely deformed and hence difficult to recognise/identify.
Fossils would not likely be found in rock other than limestone, sandstone, and shale, or rock such as marble that has morphed from these sedimentary rocks. Fossils can basically be find in most Sedimentary rocks, but not in Igneous rocks because they are formed in volcanoes.
granite is grey in color and has crystals of mica, quartz all embedded in it, giving it a shiny and silver appearance
A corny science mineral joke is.I have a nice piece of gneiss.Or any jokes you can relate to that.Because the mineral gneiss is pronounced nice, as it sounds to others.If someone has a shirt thats banded or u see a zebra with stripes or something, you can say thats gneiss!
A Gneiss rock is somewhat dark-greenish, depending on when it was made.
No, gneiss is metamorphic.
No. Gneiss is a metamorphic rock.
Gneiss is an example of a metamorphic rock.
A Gneiss is a Metamorphic rock
Granite is an igneous rock and gneiss is a metamorphic rock.
Gneiss is a metamorphic rock and its parent rock (protolith) could be a granite or schist.
Gneiss is a rock, not a mineral.
I am trying to find out what the other two types of rock besides gneiss form the Matterhorn. Gneiss is a metamorphic rock. That's a nice piece of gneiss!
Gneiss does not have a streak because it is a metamorphic rock composed of interlocking minerals with no cleavage. The streak test is typically used to determine the color of the powdered form of a mineral when rubbed against a streak plate, but this is not applicable to gneiss.
Gneiss can be formed by the metamrphism of either granite or schist.
Gneiss is a banded metamorphic rock.