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Why can minerals be found in rocks but rocks cannot be found in minerals?
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∙ 13y ago
Because rocks are made up of minerals but minerals aren't made up of rocks. Rocks are made up of little bits of many minerals. An example is granite. You know how it has speckles in it? Those are a bunch of mineral grains mixed up to form the rock granite.
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What is one difference in how rocks and minerals are classified?
A rock is made of 2 or more minerals, minerals make up rocks but rocks cannot make up minerals.
What kinds of rocks and minerals are found in sag ponds?
what kinds of rocks and minerals are in tectonic plates sag ponds
What are the types of rocks and minerals found in turkey?
some minerals are mica, fledspar, and rocks are marble, shale ,slate,granite etc.
Why do rocks have to be solid to be rocks?
It is a question of definition. Rocks are defined to be composed of minerals (at least two minerals). Minerals are by definition solid because liquid materials cannot sustain a regular repeated and symmetrical crystal lattice. Therefore rocks have to be solid.
Are silicate minerals found in Precambrian rocks?
Yes. The majority of rocks from any period of earth's history will be predominantly made of silicate minerals.
What kind of rocks and minerals are found in volcanoes?
what kind of rocks and minerals of mt.tambora
How are moon rocks similar to and different rocks on earth?
Minerals that make up moon rocks are the same minerals that are found on Earth. Some moon rocks have minerals that combine to form kinds of rocks that are not found on Earth. BlueStar(:
What two continents are rocks and minerals found on?
Rocks and minerals are found on every continent, not just two - they are found underneath the ocean as well.
What is found in common rocks?
minerals
Where on earth are minerals found?
Minerals make up the rocks of earth, so minerals are found wherever there are rocks at the surface. Water too is a mineral so this includes the oceans.
What are minerals of effusive rocks and products of fumoral activities?
minerals of effusive rocks are minerals that are found as result of cooling of magma
What are the natural substance found in rocks?
Crystals and minerals, but not fossils, as the intense pressure would have destroyed them (except in some rare contact metamorphic rocks).
What is one difference in how rocks and minerals are classified?
A rock is made of 2 or more minerals, minerals make up rocks but rocks cannot make up minerals.
Inorganic compounds which are found in the earth are called?
Rocks and minerals
What is found in most common rocks?
minerals
Where are rocks and minerals found?
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What is found in rocks and minerals?
the brown ones.
