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  • Identification of Rocks & Minerals
    Details the difference of rocks and minerals, and tips on identification using color, luster, weight, and hardness as guides.
    www.rocksforkids.com/RFK/identification.html
  • Igneous Rock Identification: Nature's Fiery Cauldron
    One of the three principal classes of rocks, they are crystalline or glassy rocks formed by the cooling and solidification of molten magma.
    geology.csupomona.edu/alert/igneous/ignrxs.htm
  • Metamorphic Rock Identification: What Lies Beneath?
    Learn about the textures and classification of rocks resulting from mineralogical and structural adjustments of existing solid rocks.
    geology.csupomona.edu/alert/metamorphic/metarxs.htm
  • About.com: Rock Identification Tables
    Offers charts for identifying common types of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks using color, grain size, composition, and hardness as guides.
    geology.about.com/library/bl/blrockident_tables.htm
  • Rocky the Rock Hound
    Offers hints on rock collection safety, lesson plans, rock identification quizzes, and information on learning how igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks are formed.
    www.fi.edu/fellows/payton/rocks
  • Igneous, Sedimentary & Metamorphic Rock Info
    Offers an introduction to intrusive and extrusive volcanic rocks, sedimentary processes, and metamorphic forces.
    www.eos.ubc.ca/courses/eosc221/petrology/rock.html
  • Sedimentary Rock Identification
    Details characteristics of sedimentary rock and describes the two types: clastic and chemical.
    www.homepage.montana.edu/~esci111/RockCycle-1/sedimentary.htm
  • Key to the Identification of Basic Sedimentary Rocks
    Flowchart of sedimentary rock types, broken down by those that react or do not react with acid and those that scratch glass or are softer than glass.
    csmres.jmu.edu/geollab/Fichter/SedRx/basickey.html
  • Rock Identification Key, The
    Geological overview of the three rock types, the rock cycle, and what minerals form rocks. Includes a key that asks a series of questions that will lead to the identification of common rocks.
    www.rockhounds.com/rockshop/rockkey
  • GeoMan's Rock Identification
    Offers chart to aid in the identification of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks using texture and color as guides.
    supercow.uoregon.edu/~mstrick/MinRockID/RockID/RockIDChart.html
  • Earth Science Lab: Igneous Rock Identification
    Includes igneous rock identification chart, information on texture and composition, and pictorial exercise for identifying the rocks.
    facweb.bhc.edu/academics/science/harwoodr/Geol101/labs/igneous
  • Earth Science Lab: Metamorphic Rock Identification
    Includes metamorphic rock identification chart, information on texture, foliation, non-foliation, and pictorial exercise for identifying the rocks.
    facweb.bhc.edu/academics/science/harwoodr/Geol101/Labs/metamorf
 



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