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Lecture 7 Minerals And Rocks 5 Flashcards

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Sedimentary Rocks can be classified into what 2 categories?

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Detrital Sedimentary Rock
Chemical Sedimentary Rock

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What are detrital sedimentary rock: How do they form?

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-Can consist of organic/inorganic materials
-Form from eroded/weathered rock fragments, smaller rocks, sediments/unconsolidated materials, organic materials
-They are just a bunch of ingredients referred to as detritus, mix of stuff that used to be

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Detrital sedimentary rock can consist of what types of materials (2)

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Organic and inorganic

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What are inorganic detrital sedimentary rocks?

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Rocks consisting of broken up pieces of other rocks and/or sediment/unconsolidated materials that have undergone lithification (compaction + cémentation)

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What kind of rocks are inorganic detrital sedimentary rocks referred to as? What are they?

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Clastic Rocks. They are rocks composed of broken pieces of other rocks and/or sediment/unconsolidated materials bonded tgt through lithification

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What are detrital sedimentary rocks formed from?

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Eroded/weathered rock fragments, smaller rocks, sediments/unconsolidated materials, organic materials

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Detritus is latin for what?

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Worn down

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Inorganic Detrital Sedimentary Rocks include:

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-Conglomerate
-Breccia
-Sandstone
-Siltstone
-Shale

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What are chemical sedimentary rocks? How are they formed

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-Rocks formed by precipitation of minerals from water
-Rocks consisting of components that originated as molecules/ions in water

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True or false: Chemical sedimentary rocks can also contain fragments of organisms

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True

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What are three ions that often make their way into chemical sedimentary rocks?

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Calcium ions, magnesium ions, carbonate ions, bicarbonate ions, sulfate ions.

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True or False: Molecules/ions can stay in water for thousands/million of years and travel thousands of kilometres before finally forming mineral crystals and rocks.

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True

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What are chemical sedimentary rocks

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Rocks formed by precipitation of minerals from water consisting of components that originated as molecules/ions

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Can chemical sedimentary rocks contain fragments of organisms

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Yes

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Limestone is made primarily of what

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Calcite (calcium carbonate)

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Where does calcite in limestone originate from

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Shells/hard parts of aquatic creatures

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Can limestone be fossils or organisms that have become glued together

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Yes

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What is fossilferous limestone made of. Why is it distinct

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Calcite like all limestone
Distinct in that it contains abundant fossils such as shells, coral and other marine organisms

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What is coquina?

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A rare form of limestone
Composed of shell fragments of mollusks and other marine invertebrates
Fragments glued together by calcite (CaCO3) that originated in these same shells

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What is chalk? What’s it made of and what kind of rock is it. How is it formed

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Chalk is made primarily of calcite (CaCO3) like all limestone
IT is a soft, white limestone with many pores
It is formed under sea/ocean/water by compression of plankton

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What is plankton?

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It includes a wide variety of plants and animals

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Where does the word plankton come from and what does it mean

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Comes from Greek word plankton which means drifter

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What really is plankton

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An organism is considered plankton if it is carried by tides and/or water’s currents and not able to move against these forces on its own

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True or false: when something is plankton it will always stay plankton

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False. Some organisms are plankton when young but eventually grow strong enough to swim against tides/currents.

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Is plankton always microscopic
No. They can be visible and larger including crustaceans, young fish and even jellyfish
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What is the difference between phytoplankton and zooplankton
Phytoplankton are plants that make their own food through photosynthesis while zooplankton are animals that often eat phytoplankton
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What is dolostone made of
Calcium magnesium carbonate (Dolomite)
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What is gypsum made of
calcium sulfate, CaSO4
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True or false: chalk is a form of limestone
True, it is a form of limestone made of plankton
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What is halite and what it is made of
Halite is rock salt and is made of sodium cholide (NaCl)
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What is chert?
-A hard chemical sedimentary rock consisting primarily of quartz coming from tiny organisms such as diatoms -Can vary in color depending on impurities (white, black, gray brown -Can appear as reddish or greenish if iron is present
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What is a type of chert?
-Flint.
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What is flint used for? (2 things)
To make jewelry, arrow and spear heads, early tools, grain grinders and even to generate sparks to start fires. Flint generates sparks when struck against steels or another hard material So jewelry and spark making
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What are diatoms
Photosynthetic (make their own food) Unicellular
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Where do diatoms live
Fresh and saltwater and even moist soils and are vital to aquatic food chains
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What makes diatoms special?
They have “armor: meaning their cells are surrounded by a wall made of transparent SILICA (Diatoms are photosynthetic unicellular algae with a transparent SiO2 cell wall)
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Diatoms produce what percent of the oxygen we breathe. How to they convert CO2 into sugar
20-30% Photosynthesis
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What is precipitation
When water evaporates and molecules deposit and form mineral crystals/rocks. DOES NOT require that all the water evaporates.
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What is a mineral or rock formed when mineral crystals emerge due to evaporation
Evaporites
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Can a precipitate form WITHOUT the evaporation of water
Yes
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Examples of evaporites (2)
-Halite (NaCl) -Gypsum (Calcium sulfate)
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What is the atacama desert?
The second driest place on earth. They experience less than 1 millimetres of rainfall per year and it has been this way for millions of years
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What are three reasons that the Atacama desert is very dry
-Andes mountain chain to East blocking humid air from rainforest. (Stops humidity from rainforest from getting there) -Cold water current in the Pacific Ocean west of desert (less evaporation, less clouds, less rain=more dry) -High atmospheric pressure over desert during summer/fall
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Why does the Yungay region of the desert have halite evaporites formations
Incredible dryness
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T of F: Halite formations absorbs water in atmosphere which allows formation to sustain life, Cyanobacteria
True
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Halite evaporites formations are home to ___ colonies in one of the driest places on earth
Cyanobacteria
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What is Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) (3 things)
-Group of bacteria (microscopic living organisms made of one single cell -over 6000 known species -Aquatic (live in water) -PHOTOSYNTHETIC (use sun to make their own food)
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Is Cyanobacteria the youngest fossil
False. They are the oldest known fossils (from over 3..5 billion years ago)
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How are Cyanobacteria responsible for creating the “oxygen atmosphere”
Because there was very little oxygen before Cyanobacteria (it was mostly Nitrogen and carbon dioxide gas). It is responsible for plant life.
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What thing in cells enable them to make their own food. What are they
Chloroplasts. They are Cyanobacteria that entered other cells hundreds of million of years ago.
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Cyanobacteria living in atacama desert halide formations can be referred to as?
Endoliths
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What are endoliths
Organisms that live inside rocks, minerals, coral, animal shells or in pores between mineral grains
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What two factor can make minerals precipitate without all water evaporating?
Changing temperatures (only colder tho?) Altering waters acidity
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Earth’s oceans produce what percent of our oxygen?
50%
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What ocean animal has a bite 4x more powerful than T-Rex
Predator X. 15 metres long, 45 tons

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