Geology 100 Self- Test 15

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  1. What are the effects of temperature, confining pressure and differential stress on the minerals and textures of metamorphic rocks?

    2. Your answer:

  2. How do regional metamorphic rocks differ in texture from contact metamorphic rocks?

    3. Your answer:

  3. Shearing is a type of

    4. Your answer:
    compressive stress
    confining pressure
    lithostatic pressure
    differential stress

  4. Metamorphic rocks are classified primarily on

    5. Your answer:
    texture- presence of absence of foliation
    mineralogy- the presence of absence of quartz
    environment of deposition
    chemical composition

  5. Which is not a foliated metamorphic rock?

    6. Your answer:
    gneiss
    schist
    quartzite
    slate

  6. Limestone recrystallizes during metamorphism into

    7. Your answer:
    hornfels
    marble
    quartzite
    schist

  7. Quartz sandstone is changed during metamorphism into

    8. Your answer:
    hornfels
    marble
    quartzite
    schist

  8. The correct sequence of rocks that are formed when shale undergoes progressive metamorphism is

    9. Your answer:
    slate, gneiss, schist, phyllite
    phyllite, slate, schist, gneiss
    slate, phyllite, schist, gneiss
    schist, phyllite, slate, gneiss

  9. Ore bodies at divergent plate boundaries can be created through

    10. Your answer:
    contact metamorphism
    regional metamorphism
    hydrothermal processes

  10. Metaorphic rocks with the same mineral assemblage belong to the same

    11. Your answer:
    metamorphic facies
    progressive metamorphism
    schistosity