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    LAB 2 - GLG 103 Igneous Rock Worksheet Name

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    This document is a lab worksheet for a geology class that provides instructions to identify unknown rock samples based on their characteristics. Students are given a table to complete with the specimen number, descriptions of whether the rock is coarse-grained, fine-grained, or porphyritic, its grain size, color, any visible minerals, and the identified name of the rock. The table is then filled in with the characteristics and names of 8 unknown rock samples, including granite, basalt, obsidian, peridotite, andesite, diorite, and more granite.

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    This document is a lab worksheet for a geology class that provides instructions to identify unknown rock samples based on their characteristics. Students are given a table to complete with the specimen number, descriptions of whether the rock is coarse-grained, fine-grained, or porphyritic, its grain size, color, any visible minerals, and the identified name of the rock. The table is then filled in with the characteristics and names of 8 unknown rock samples, including granite, basalt, obsidian, peridotite, andesite, diorite, and more granite.

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    This document is a lab worksheet for a geology class that provides instructions to identify unknown rock samples based on their characteristics. Students are given a table to complete with the specimen number, descriptions of whether the rock is coarse-grained, fine-grained, or porphyritic, its grain size, color, any visible minerals, and the identified name of the rock. The table is then filled in with the characteristics and names of 8 unknown rock samples, including granite, basalt, obsidian, peridotite, andesite, diorite, and more granite.

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    LAB 2 - GLG 103 Igneous Rock Worksheet Name

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    This document is a lab worksheet for a geology class that provides instructions to identify unknown rock samples based on their characteristics. Students are given a table to complete with the specimen number, descriptions of whether the rock is coarse-grained, fine-grained, or porphyritic, its grain size, color, any visible minerals, and the identified name of the rock. The table is then filled in with the characteristics and names of 8 unknown rock samples, including granite, basalt, obsidian, peridotite, andesite, diorite, and more granite.

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    LAB 2 – GLG 103

    IGNEOUS ROCK WORKSHEET Name: _______________________

    Complete the table by including the characteristics and the identity of each unknown rock.

    SPECIMEN COARSE-GRAINED, TWO LIGHT, NAME ANY VISIBLE NAME OF ROCK


    NUMBER FINE-GRAINED, GRAIN INTERMEDIATE, MINERALS:
    PORPHYRITIC, SIZES? OR DARK
    GLASSY, OR COLOR? Quartz: gray, glassy
    FRAGMENTAL? w/irregular fracture
    Mica: silvery or black
    flakes
    Amphiboles/Pyroxenes:
    black, blocky to
    splintery looking
    Feldspar : black, or pink
    to white, semi-
    chalky, and blocky
    Rock fragments

    Course-grained No Feldspar Granite


    I-1 Light-colored

    Course-grained No Dark colored Rock fragments Basalt


    I-2

    Fine-grained No Dark color Amphiboles obsidian


    I-3

    Course-grained No Dark feldspar Peridotite


    I-4

    Course-grained yes Intermediate Quartz, feldspar andesite


    I-5
    Course-grained yes light quartz diorite
    I-6

    Course-grained no light quartz granite


    I-7

    Fine-grained no Dark Rock fragments basalt


    I-8

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