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What is the smallest type of rock?
Reasoning : soil particles the diameters of which are less than 0.005 millimetre; also a rock that is composed essentially of clay particles. Rock in this sense includes soils, ceramic clays, clay shales, mudstones, glacial clays (including great volumes of detrital and transported clays), and deep-sea clays (red clay, blue clay, and blue mud). These are all characterized by the presence of one or more clay minerals, together with varying amounts of organic and detrital materials, among which quartz is predominant. Clay materials are plastic when wet, and coherent when dry. Most clays are the result of weathering.
What rock is considered the parent rock?
Marble!
What mineral group forms by the breakdown and weathering of rock forming silicate minerals and are important constituents of soils?
Clays
What does the term parent rock refer to?
sometimes rocks break off into pices the rock the pices came from is known as the parent rock
The original rock before it metamorphoses.?
Parent Rock, apexx
What is the crystalline structure of phyllite?
phyllite is a type of metasedimentary rock. The parent rock likely contained clays and/or micas, which have metamorphosed into micas and aligned due to pressure. This shiny surface is produced by the alignment of the minerals.
Sedimentary rock that is made from clays is called?
Mudstone or shale.
What rock is chert the parent rock of?
Nothing, Chert has a parent rock and is made of mostly fossils and silica. It is not a parent rock. It has a parent rock.
What is limestones parent rock?
Limestone does not have a parent rock.
What metamorphic rock is made from clay?
Clays lithify into shale. Shale metamorphoses into slate.
Is a toilet bowl a rock or mineral?
Mineral. Various clays are used to make the ceramics of toilets.
What is the smallest type of rock?
Reasoning : soil particles the diameters of which are less than 0.005 millimetre; also a rock that is composed essentially of clay particles. Rock in this sense includes soils, ceramic clays, clay shales, mudstones, glacial clays (including great volumes of detrital and transported clays), and deep-sea clays (red clay, blue clay, and blue mud). These are all characterized by the presence of one or more clay minerals, together with varying amounts of organic and detrital materials, among which quartz is predominant. Clay materials are plastic when wet, and coherent when dry. Most clays are the result of weathering.
What is in weathered parent rock?
soil is in weathered parent rock
What is the parent rock of phyllite?
Phyllite is a foliated metamorphic rock whose parent rock is slate.
What is the parent rock of limestone?
Limestone doesn't normally have a parent rock. One exception to this may be a detrital limestone, whose parent rock would however also be limestone!
Is marble and limestone an example of a metamorphic rock and its parent rock?
Yes. Limestone is the parent rock, or protolith, of marble.
How do you put the word parent rock in a sentence?
the parent rock helps protect soil
