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☆☆☆☆☆A mineral can have varying numbers of cleavage planes, areas where there exists an inclination to cleave when struck or force is applied.. Most mineral crystals exhibit a preferred cleavage in certain directions, but may have cleavage planes in other directions.
The acid test tells you whether it is a carbonate or not.
These are the building blocks of silicates.
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Igneous rocks can be classified by their method of formation and by their mineralogy.
Magma emplacements or Batholith are not sedimentary structures.
Crystal faces.
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Because many different minerals may look the same, Like quartz and diamond, they are the same color, clear, but are very different minerals.
Batholith is an intrusive igneous body.
It must have lived for a short geologic period of time.
Stratification
Shrinking of the polar ice caps
Force of Hurricane winds
Glacial meltwater
Lava cooling
Limestone
