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    Metamorphic Rocks

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    The document describes different types of regional metamorphic rocks including slate, phyllite, schist, gneiss, migmatite, and amphibolite based on their protolith, appearance, and distinguishing features. It also covers types of contact metamorphic rocks like marble, quartzite, and hornfels and dynamic metamorphic rocks such as mylonite. Key features mentioned include luster, grain size, presence of micas or other minerals, foliation, and reaction to acid.

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    The document describes different types of regional metamorphic rocks including slate, phyllite, schist, gneiss, migmatite, and amphibolite based on their protolith, appearance, and distinguishing features. It also covers types of contact metamorphic rocks like marble, quartzite, and hornfels and dynamic metamorphic rocks such as mylonite. Key features mentioned include luster, grain size, presence of micas or other minerals, foliation, and reaction to acid.

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    The document describes different types of regional metamorphic rocks including slate, phyllite, schist, gneiss, migmatite, and amphibolite based on their protolith, appearance, and distinguishing features. It also covers types of contact metamorphic rocks like marble, quartzite, and hornfels and dynamic metamorphic rocks such as mylonite. Key features mentioned include luster, grain size, presence of micas or other minerals, foliation, and reaction to acid.

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    Metamorphic Rocks

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    The document describes different types of regional metamorphic rocks including slate, phyllite, schist, gneiss, migmatite, and amphibolite based on their protolith, appearance, and distinguishing features. It also covers types of contact metamorphic rocks like marble, quartzite, and hornfels and dynamic metamorphic rocks such as mylonite. Key features mentioned include luster, grain size, presence of micas or other minerals, foliation, and reaction to acid.

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    TYPE OF REGIONAL METAMORPHIC ROCKS

    Name : Slate
    Protolith : Fine grain (shalestone, mudstone)
    Features : Dull, grey or any color, slaty cleavage,
    micas doesn’t visible with naked eye, easy to
    break on its foliation

    Name : Phyllite
    Protolith : Any rock
    Features : Shiny, grey or any color, foliated but
    sometimes wrinkle, micas visible with naked
    eye (larger than slate), glittering from micas
    mineral

    Name : Schist
    Protolith : Any rock
    Features : Shiny, silver or any color, strong
    foliated cleavage, micas clearly seen with naked
    eyes (larger than phyllite), garnet or kyanite
    sometimes observed

    Name : Gneiss
    Protolith : Any rock (but often coarse grain rocks,
    such as granite, conglomerate, breccia)
    Features : Dull, micas is weakly seen, banded
    between light minerals (feldspar and quartz)
    with dark minerals (biotite and amphibolite) or
    called lineation
    TYPE OF REGIONAL METAMORPHIC ROCKS

    Name : Migmatite
    Protolith : Any rock (but often coarse grain rocks,
    such as granite, conglomerate, breccia)
    Features : Dull, micas is weakly seen, banded
    between light minerals (feldspar and quartz)
    with dark minerals (biotite and amphibolite) or
    called lineation, folded gneiss

    Name : Amphibolite
    Protolith : Mafic igneous rock (gabbro, diorite,
    basalt)
    Features : Dull, dark grey, consist of elongated
    amphibole and plagioclase, sometimes garnet
    observed, can be weakly foliated or not
    foliated, medium to coarse grain
    TYPE OF CONTACT METAMORPHIC ROCKS

    Name : Marble
    Protolith : Limestone
    Features : Dull, grey, consist of calcite (stable at
    high temperature), no or very weak foliated
    (due to no pressure involved), react with acid
    (release CO2), softer than quartzite

    Name : Quartzite
    Protolith : Sandstone (high quartz)
    Features : Dull, grey, consist of quartz, no or very
    weak foliated (due to no pressure involved),
    doesn’t react with acid, harder than marble

    Name : Hornfels
    Protolith : Mudstone or clay-rich rock
    Features : Fine grain metamorphosed rock from
    product of contact metamorphism, hard to
    distinct in hand specimen, mostly equigranular
    TYPE OF DYNAMIC (PRESSURE) METAMORPHIC ROCKS

    Name : Mylonite
    Protolith : Any rock
    Features : Emplaced in fault/shear zone, foliated
    and lineated, usually consist of porphyroclast
    with same composition with matrix, rock flour
    as a matrix is product of rock milling in fault
    mechanism, brittle to ductile formation
    MINERAL INDEX IN METAMORPHIC ROCKS

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